"Birefringence" 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 property of nonisotropic media, such as crystals, whereby a single incident beam of light traverses the medium as two beams, each plane-polarized, the planes being at right angles to each other. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D001718
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.590.080
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| Concept/Terms |
Birefringence- Birefringence
- Birefringences
- Birefraction
- Birefractions
- Double Refraction
- Double Refractions
- Refraction, Double
- Refractions, Double
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Birefringence" by people in Profiles.
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Histone phosphorylation in native chromatin induces local structural changes as probed by electric birefringence. J Mol Biol. 1985 Nov 20; 186(2):367-79.
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Association states of tubulin in the presence and absence of microtubule-associated proteins. Analysis by electric birefringence. Biophys Chem. 1985 Oct; 22(4):307-16.
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Electric birefringence of chromatin reconstituted with various histone H1 subfractions. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1984 Jun 15; 121(2):530-7.
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Differences in the electric birefringence of spectrin dimers and tetramers as shown by the fast reversing electric pulse method. Biophys Chem. 1982 Nov; 16(3):193-8.
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Effect of digestion with trypsin on chromatin structure. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1982 Oct 29; 108(4):1551-8.
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Flexibility of nucleosomal DNA. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1980 Jul 16; 95(1):27-33.
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Influence of histone H1 on chromatin structure. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1980 May 30; 94(2):535-41.
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Intermolecular interaction studies on native and enzyme-treated acid-soluble collagen. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1978 Feb 15; 532(2):305-14.
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Specificity of interaction of haptoglobin with mammalian hemoglobin. Biochemistry. 1972 Oct 10; 11(21):3851-60.
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Birefringent crystals in human thyroid. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh). 1968 May; 58(1):172-6.