 Light
"Light" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
That portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared range.
| Descriptor ID |
D008027
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.358.500.505.650 G01.590.540 G01.750.250.650 G01.750.770.578
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| Concept/Terms |
Light- Light
- Photoradiation
- Photoradiations
Light, Visible- Light, Visible
- Visible Light
- Radiation, Visible
- Visible Radiation
- Radiations, Visible
- Visible Radiations
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Light" by people in this website by year, and whether "Light" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1997 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2000 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2001 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2002 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2003 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2004 | 4 | 10 | 14 | | 2005 | 8 | 9 | 17 | | 2006 | 4 | 8 | 12 | | 2007 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | 2008 | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 2009 | 3 | 12 | 15 | | 2010 | 6 | 6 | 12 | | 2011 | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 2012 | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 2013 | 12 | 10 | 22 | | 2014 | 5 | 11 | 16 | | 2015 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2016 | 2 | 7 | 9 | | 2017 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2018 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2019 | 5 | 8 | 13 | | 2020 | 4 | 10 | 14 | | 2021 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2024 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2025 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2026 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Light" by people in Profiles.
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Brachi G, McKean J, Lee CP, Edwin-Ezeh J, Srubar WV. Chemical stimulation sustains bioluminescence of living light materials. Sci Adv. 2026 May 08; 12(19):eaee3907.
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Mazumdar N, Beatty DN, Fyfe MH, Srubar WV. Effect of environmental parameters on growth and calcification in marine coccolithophore Gephyrocapsa huxleyi CCMP371. Bioresour Technol. 2026 Jul; 452:134576.
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Sharma R, Mus F, Pellows LM, Dahl PJ, Mulder DW, Yang ZY, King PW, Dukovic G, Seefeldt LC, Peters JW. Mechanistic Insights into Dinitrogen Reduction to Ammonia in Light-Controlled Nanocrystal:Nitrogenase Complexes. Acc Chem Res. 2026 May 19; 59(10):1609-1620.
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Roos L, Garrido-Charles A, Albrecht N, Vavakou A, Alekseev A, Bleyer M, Thirumalai A, Mittring A, Alvanos T, Huet AT, Bamberg E, Kusch K, Wolf BJ, Moser T, Mager T. Channelrhodopsin variants for high-rate optogenetic neurostimulation at low light intensities. EMBO Mol Med. 2026 Feb; 18(2):462-491.
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Kennedy SJ, Risser DD, Paul BG. Diel expression dynamics in filamentous cyanobacteria. mBio. 2025 Dec 10; 16(12):e0377924.
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Zhang Y, Davis R, Biswas S, Miller SE, Raza Ur Rehman S, Felix GT, Gaharwar AK. Multiscale Engineered Heterogeneous Hydrogel Composites for Digital Light Processing 3D Printing. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2025 Sep 17; 17(37):51605-51619.
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Warwick AM, Yu L, Klingeborn M, Travis AM, Parmar VM, Bomze HM, Malek G, Gospe Iii SM. Reduced complex I activity in the retinal pigment epithelium, but not in rod photoreceptors, affects light signaling without impacting cell survival. J Biol Chem. 2025 09; 301(9):110586.
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Reis DJ, Huang JB, Bahraini NH. The relationship between sleep and circadian-sleep phase angles based on dim light melatonin onset predicted from light and activity data. J Clin Sleep Med. 2025 Aug 01; 21(8):1349-1361.
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Alekseev A, Hunniford V, Zerche M, Jeschke M, El May F, Vavakou A, Siegenthaler D, Hüser MA, Kiehn SM, Garrido-Charles A, Meyer A, Rambousky A, Alvanos T, Witzke I, Rojas-Garcia KD, Draband MD, Cyganek L, Klein E, Ruther P, Huet A, Trenholm S, Macé E, Kusch K, Bruegmann T, Wolf BJ, Mager T, Moser T. Efficient and sustained optogenetic control of sensory and cardiac systems. Nat Biomed Eng. 2026 Feb; 10(2):277-292.
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Stritzel WJ, Levy C, Ravenel JR, Strnad HK, Osman M, Prévost ED, Root DH, Reuter JD, Sloan AM, Spencer RL. Red Light Sensitivity of Non-image and Image Forming Visual Systems of Laboratory Rodents: Circadian Disruption and Behavioral Detection. J Neurosci. 2025 05 14; 45(20).
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