"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Darkness" by people in Profiles.
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Jasser SA, Blask DE, Brainard GC. Light during darkness and cancer: relationships in circadian photoreception and tumor biology. Cancer Causes Control. 2006 May; 17(4):515-23.
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Blask DE, Dauchy RT, Sauer LA, Krause JA, Brainard GC. Light during darkness, melatonin suppression and cancer progression. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2002 Jul; 23 Suppl 2:52-6.
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Seifert EL, Mortola JP. Light-dark differences in the effects of ambient temperature on gaseous metabolism in newborn rats. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2000 May; 88(5):1853-8.
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Ruberg FL, Skene DJ, Hanifin JP, Rollag MD, English J, Arendt J, Brainard GC. Melatonin regulation in humans with color vision deficiencies. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1996 Aug; 81(8):2980-5.
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Schiffman JS, Lasch HM, Rollag MD, Flanders AE, Brainard GC, Burk DL. Effect of MR imaging on the normal human pineal body: measurement of plasma melatonin levels. J Magn Reson Imaging. 1994 Jan-Feb; 4(1):7-11.
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Mondadori C, Gentsch C, Hengerer B, Ducret T, Borkowski J, Racine A, Lederer R, Haeusler A. Pretreatment with aldosterone or corticosterone blocks the memory-enhancing effects of nimodipine, captopril, CGP 37,849, and strychnine in mice. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 1992; 109(4):383-9.
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Winn S, Tasman W, Spaeth G, McDonald PR, Justice J. Oguchi's disease in Negroes. Arch Ophthalmol. 1969 Apr; 81(4):501-7.