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Ultraviolet Rays

Known as: UV, light ultraviolet, Ultraviolet light 
Invisible rays that are part of the energy that comes from the sun. Ultraviolet radiation that reaches the Earth's surface is made up of two types of… 
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Electromagnetic RadiationLightRadiationRadiation, Nonionizing
PhotochemotherapyPhototherapyultraviolet lights

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Paper status: Accepted to the ApJ Missing Massive Stars in Starbursts: Stellar Temperature Diagnostics and the IMF
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 12001312
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
The C-C (6-4) UV photoproduct is mutagenic in Escherichia coli.
Mutation induced by ultraviolet light is predominantly targeted by UV photoproducts. Two primary candidates for the premutagenic… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Gibberella fujikuroi mutants obtained with UV radiation and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine
N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (nitrosoguanidine) and to a lesser extent UV radiation are very mutagenic for Gibberella… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Cyclobutane-type pyrimidine photodimer formation and excision in human skin fibroblasts after irradiation with 313-nm ultraviolet light.
The formation and excision of 313-nm light-induced cyclobutane-type pyrimidine photodimers were determined in confluent cultures… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Variations of DNA polymerase-alpha and -beta during prolonged stimulation of human lymphocytes.
Stimulation of human lymphocytes with phytohemagglutinin is known to induce an increase in overall DNA polymerase activity (DNA… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Isolation of defective mutant of avian sarcoma virus.
A colony of transformed cells was isolated from chick-embryo cells infected with a stock of nondefective Schmidt-Ruppin strain of… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Prevention of virus B hepatitis (SH hepatitis).
Traditional preventive measures against virus B hepatitis (SH, MS-2), new measures based on the detection of the Australia (Au… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Early Effects of Ultraviolet Light on DNA Synthesis in Human Skin in Vivo
The early effects of ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis in human skin were studied in… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Ultraviolet-light irradiation of mouse L cells: effects on cells in the DNA synthesis phase.
Damage produced by low exposures of ultraviolet-light (UV) irradiation exerts a specific effect on mouse L cells during their… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Resistance to the bactericidal effect of ultraviolet radiation conferred on Enterobacteria by the colicine factor coli.
SUMMARY: Strains of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli which have acquired the colicine factor, colI, are less sensitive…