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.

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That portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared range.

Descriptor ID	D008027
MeSH Number(s)	G01.358.500.505.650 G01.590.540 G01.750.250.650 G01.750.770.578
Concept/Terms	Light Light Photoradiation Photoradiations Light, Visible Light, Visible Visible Light Radiation, Visible Visible Radiation Radiations, Visible Visible Radiations

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Light".

Biological Sciences [G]
Physical Phenomena [G01]
Magnetic Phenomena [G01.358]
Electromagnetic Phenomena [G01.358.500]
Electromagnetic Radiation [G01.358.500.505]
Light [G01.358.500.505.650]
Optical Phenomena [G01.590]
Light [G01.590.540]
Radiation [G01.750]
Electromagnetic Radiation [G01.750.250]
Light [G01.750.250.650]
Radiation, Nonionizing [G01.750.770]
Light [G01.750.770.578]

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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.

Bar chart showing 148 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2006 and 2013

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1998	1	1	2
1999	0	1	1
2000	0	1	1
2001	1	1	2
2002	1	5	6
2003	2	5	7
2004	1	4	5
2005	2	6	8
2006	0	10	10
2007	5	4	9
2008	1	5	6
2009	3	0	3
2010	0	4	4
2011	2	7	9
2012	3	6	9
2013	2	8	10
2014	1	5	6
2015	0	6	6
2016	3	5	8
2017	6	2	8
2018	2	5	7
2019	1	3	4
2020	2	2	4
2021	0	3	3
2022	0	1	1
2023	0	2	2
2024	1	3	4
2025	1	1	2

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Sadikaj D, Fekri A, Bautista I, Davis N, Agha Alkla T, Mirza MMH, Wang J, Stallworth P, Hudson-Smith N, Bandosz TJ, Yu X, Greenbaum S, Li W. Importance of S-Doped Porous Carbon Acidity and Visible Light Photoactivity for Its Antibacterial Activity. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2025 Nov 26; 17(47):64106-64117.

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Soares DMM, Galeazzo GA, Sgro GG, de Moraes GV, Kronenberg L, Borukh E, Migotto AE, Gruber DF, Sparks JS, Pieribone VA, Stevani CV, Oliveira AG. Velamins: green-light-emitting calcium-regulated photoproteins isolated from the ctenophore Velamen parallelum. FEBS J. 2025 Aug; 292(16):4183-4199.

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George A, Alva E, Brancaleon L, Marucho M. Dynamic and electrophoretic light scattering measurements on microtubules at low concentrations. PLoS One. 2024; 19(12):e0312430.

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Min E, Boelman NT, Gough L, McLaren JR, Rastetter EB, Rowe RJ, Rocha A, Turnbull MH, Griffin KL. The give and take of Arctic greening: differential responses of the carbon sink-to-source threshold to light and temperature in tussock tundra may be influenced by vegetation cover. Commun Biol. 2024 08 06; 7(1):950.

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Kumar A, Singh P, Nguyen VH, Le QV, Ahamad T, Thakur S, Matsagar BM, Kaya S, Maslov MM, Wu KC, Nguyen LH, Raizada P. DFT and experimental studies of the facet-dependent oxygen vacancies modulated WS2/BiOCl-OV S-scheme structure for enhanced photocatalytic removal of ciprofloxacin from wastewater. Environ Res. 2024 Jun 01; 250:118519.

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Thomas S, Sriramoju V, Alfano RR. Laser tissue welding by using collagen excitation at a 1,720??nm near-infrared optical window III. Appl Opt. 2024 Feb 01; 63(4):1007-1014.

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Bhatt HN, Diwan R, Borrego EA, P?rez CAM, Varela-Ramirez A, Kumar R, Aguilera RJ, Nurunnabi M. A photothermal driven chemotherapy for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. J Control Release. 2023 09; 361:314-333.

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Ramsey AM, Stowie A, Hill A, Ellis I, Rhodes MK, Pollock DM, Davidson AJ. Long-term circadian disruption shortens life span and dampens blood pressure diurnal rhythms in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 07 01; 325(1):H106-H112.

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Tosini G. Blue-light-blocking Lenses in Eyeglasses: A Question of Timing. Optom Vis Sci. 2022 03 01; 99(3):228-229.

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Kim HJ, Kato N, Ndathe R, Thyssen GN, Jones DC, Ratnayaka HH. Evidence for thermosensitivity of the cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) immature fiber (im) mutant via hypersensitive stomatal activity. PLoS One. 2021; 16(12):e0259562.

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