"Luminescence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Emission of LIGHT when ELECTRONS return to the electronic ground state from an excited state and lose the energy as PHOTONS. It is sometimes called cool light in contrast to INCANDESCENCE. LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS take advantage of this type of light emitted from LUMINESCENT AGENTS.
| Descriptor ID |
D049449
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.358.500.505.650.665 G01.590.540.665 G01.750.250.650.665 G01.750.770.578.665
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| Concept/Terms |
Luminescence- Luminescence
- Luminescence, Physical
- Physical Luminescence
Chemiluminescence- Chemiluminescence
- Chemiluminescence, Physical
- Physical Chemiluminescence
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Luminescence" by people in Profiles.
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Ghedotti MJ, Valdez JJ, Martin RP, Carr EM, Sparks JS. Morphology of the light-organ system and bioluminescent blinking in the ponyfish tribe Equulitini (Teleostei: Leiognathidae). PLoS One. 2026; 21(4):e0347687.
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Carr EM, Martin RP, Ghedotti MJ, Sparks JS. A shot in the dark: Comparative morphology of the bioluminescent tube organs in tubeshoulders (Platytroctidae). PLoS One. 2026; 21(1):e0332016.
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Martin RP, Carr EM, Sparks JS. Variation in lanternfish (Myctophidae) photophore structure: A comprehensive comparative analysis. PLoS One. 2024; 19(11):e0310976.
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Pramanik A, Kundu S, Gates K, Kumar A, Kolawole OP, Talukdar A, Iftekhar R, Corby LR, Ray PC. Multi-Color-Emissive Magneto-Luminescent Nanoarchitectures for Targeted Identification of Heterogeneous Exosomes Associated with Lung Cancer Metastasis. ACS Appl Bio Mater. 2023 06 19; 6(6):2446-2458.
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Essock-Burns T, Bennett BD, Arencibia D, Moriano-Gutierrez S, Medeiros M, McFall-Ngai MJ, Ruby EG. Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Regulation Induces Morphological Change in a Key Host Tissue during the Euprymna scolopes-Vibrio fischeri Symbiosis. mBio. 2021 10 26; 12(5):e0240221.
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Tessler M, Gaffney JP, Oliveira AG, Guarnaccia A, Dobi KC, Gujarati NA, Galbraith M, Mirza JD, Sparks JS, Pieribone VA, Wood RJ, Gruber DF. A putative chordate luciferase from a cosmopolitan tunicate indicates convergent bioluminescence evolution across phyla. Sci Rep. 2020 10 20; 10(1):17724.
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Bennett BD, Essock-Burns T, Ruby EG. HbtR, a Heterofunctional Homolog of the Virulence Regulator TcpP, Facilitates the Transition between Symbiotic and Planktonic Lifestyles in Vibrio fischeri. mBio. 2020 09 01; 11(5).
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Gruber DF, Phillips BT, O'Brien R, Boominathan V, Veeraraghavan A, Vasan G, O'Brien P, Pieribone VA, Sparks JS. Bioluminescent flashes drive nighttime schooling behavior and synchronized swimming dynamics in flashlight fish. PLoS One. 2019; 14(8):e0219852.
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Pratt EC, Shaffer TM, Zhang Q, Drain CM, Grimm J. Nanoparticles as multimodal photon transducers of ionizing radiation. Nat Nanotechnol. 2018 05; 13(5):418-426.
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Davis MP, Sparks JS, Smith WL. Repeated and Widespread Evolution of Bioluminescence in Marine Fishes. PLoS One. 2016; 11(6):e0155154.