"Darkness" 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.
The absence of light.
| Descriptor ID |
D003624
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.590.540.233
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Darkness".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Darkness" by people in this website by year, and whether "Darkness" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Darkness" by people in Profiles.
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Yoshizawa M, Hixon E, Jeffery WR. Neural Crest Transplantation Reveals Key Roles in the Evolution of Cavefish Development. Integr Comp Biol. 2018 09 01; 58(3):411-420.
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Porter ML, Sumner-Rooney L. Evolution in the Dark: Unifying our Understanding of Eye Loss. Integr Comp Biol. 2018 09 01; 58(3):367-371.
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Bell KA, Kobayashi I, Chen Y, Mellman TA. Nocturnal autonomic nervous system activity and morning proinflammatory cytokines in young adult African Americans. J Sleep Res. 2017 08; 26(4):510-515.
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Xing D, Yeh CI, Gordon J, Shapley RM. Cortical brightness adaptation when darkness and brightness produce different dynamical states in the visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jan 21; 111(3):1210-5.
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O'Quin KE, Yoshizawa M, Doshi P, Jeffery WR. Quantitative genetic analysis of retinal degeneration in the blind cavefish Astyanax mexicanus. PLoS One. 2013; 8(2):e57281.
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Del Valle-Mojica LM, Ort?z JG. Anxiolytic properties of Valeriana officinalis in the zebrafish: a possible role for metabotropic glutamate receptors. Planta Med. 2012 Nov; 78(16):1719-24.
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Perry GH, Reeves D, Melsted P, Ratan A, Miller W, Michelini K, Louis EE, Pritchard JK, Mason CE, Gilad Y. A genome sequence resource for the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a nocturnal lemur from Madagascar. Genome Biol Evol. 2012; 4(2):126-35.
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Vollert C, Zagaar M, Hovatta I, Taneja M, Vu A, Dao A, Levine A, Alkadhi K, Salim S. Exercise prevents sleep deprivation-associated anxiety-like behavior in rats: potential role of oxidative stress mechanisms. Behav Brain Res. 2011 Oct 31; 224(2):233-40.
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Yoshizawa M, Goricki S, Soares D, Jeffery WR. Evolution of a behavioral shift mediated by superficial neuromasts helps cavefish find food in darkness. Curr Biol. 2010 Sep 28; 20(18):1631-6.
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Baba K, Pozdeyev N, Mazzoni F, Contreras-Alcantara S, Liu C, Kasamatsu M, Martinez-Merlos T, Strettoi E, Iuvone PM, Tosini G. Melatonin modulates visual function and cell viability in the mouse retina via the MT1 melatonin receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Sep 01; 106(35):15043-8.