"Dark Adaptation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Adjustment of the eyes under conditions of low light. The sensitivity of the eye to light is increased during dark adaptation.
| Descriptor ID |
D003623
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G14.020.371
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| Concept/Terms |
Dark Adaptation- Dark Adaptation
- Adaptation, Dark
- Scotopic Adaptation
- Adaptation, Scotopic
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dark Adaptation" by people in Profiles.
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Circadian arrhythmia dysregulates emotional behaviors in aged Siberian hamsters. Behav Brain Res. 2014 Mar 15; 261:146-57.
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Electroretinographic findings in a patient with congenital stationary night blindness due to a novel NYX mutation. Ophthalmic Genet. 2013 Sep; 34(3):167-73.
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Cone phototransduction and growth of the ERG b-wave during light adaptation. Vision Res. 2006 Oct; 46(22):3941-8.
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The application of chromatic dark-adapted kinetic perimetry to retinal diseases. Ophthalmology. 2004 Jun; 111(6):1222-7.
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A distinctive form of congenital stationary night blindness with cone ON-pathway dysfunction. Ophthalmology. 2002 Mar; 109(3):575-83.
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Simultaneous S-cone contrast. Vision Res. 2002 Jan; 42(1):75-88.
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Evidence supportive of a functional discrimination between photopic oscillatory potentials as revealed with cone and rod mediated retinopathies. Doc Ophthalmol. 1998; 95(1):35-54.
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Acquired unilateral night blindness associated with a negative electroretinogram waveform. Ophthalmology. 1996 Jan; 103(1):96-104.
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Prolonged rod dark adaptation in patients with cone-rod dystrophy. Am J Ophthalmol. 1994 Sep 15; 118(3):362-7.
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Color perception within a chromatic context: the effect of short-wavelength light on color appearance. Vision Res. 1994 Feb; 34(3):359-65.