Photobiology : principles, applications, and effects / Léon N. Collignon and Claud B. Normand, editors.

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PHOTOBIOLOGY PRINCIPLES, APPLICATIONS AND EFFECTS ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; ON POSSIBLE COHERENT EFFECTS IN PRIMARY VISUAL PERCEPTION ; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION; 1. DIRECT LIGHT SCATTERING IN THE LAYERS OF CELLS OF THE INVERTED RETINA ; 1.1. Physical Mechanisms of Direct Light Scattering in the Retina and Computational Models ; 1.2. A Method for Calculating the Direct Field of Scattering ; 1.3. Some Examples of Simulated Fields of Direct Scattering in the Retina ; 2. ACCIDENTAL MOVEMENTS OF THE VISUAL APPARATUS ; 3. RODOPHSINE PHOTOISOMERISATION REACTION.

4. PROPOSED MODEL OF VISUAL PERCEPTION 4.1. Interference and Holographic Approaches ; 4.2. Fourier Analysis of the Images ; 4.3. Published " Holographic" Hypotheses ; 4.4. Temporal Coherence of Light ; 5. POSSIBLE MECHANISMS FOR IMAGE RECONDTRUCTION ; 5.1. Matched Filtering Processing ; 5.2. Nonlinear Phase Methods and Speckle-Holography ; CONCLUSION ; REFERENCES ; PHOTOBIOLOGY OF INFANT SKIN ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPOSURE OF SKIN TO UVR EARLY IN LIFE ; 2.1. Cutaneous Melanocytic Melanoma ; 2.2. Melanocytic Nevi ; 2.3. Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer.

3. EFFECTS OF UVR ON THE BIOLOGY OF INFANT SKIN 3.1. Cell and Tissue Culture Models; 3.1.1. DNA repair response and cutaneous immunity ; 3.1.2. UVB-Induced vitamin D production ; 3.2. Animal Models ; 3.2.1. Modulation of the skin immune system ; 3.2.2. Implications for carcinogenesis ; 3.2.3. UVB-induced vitamin D production ; 3.3. Human Studies ; 3.3.1. Developing barrier properties ; 3.3.2. Melanogenesis: developing skin response to UVR ; 3.3.3. UVB exposure and vitamin D requirements; 4. BLUE LIGHT PHOTOTHERAPY FOR JAUNDICE ; 5. CONCLUSION AND AREAS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH; ABBREVIATIONS.

1.2. Initiation of Damage 1.3. Underpinning Oxidative Mechanisms ; 2. PROTEIN DAMAGE HIERARCHIES ; 2.1. Residue Specific Modification ; 2.1.1. Aromatic residues ; 2.1.2. Sulfur-containing residues ; 2.1.3. Other modifications ; 2.2. Structural Damage ; 2.2.1. Carbonylation ; 2.2.2. Backbone cleavage and side-chain scission ; 2.2.3. Crosslinking ; 3. EFFECT ON FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES ; 3.1. Human Health and Wellbeing ; 3.1.1. Skin ; 3.1.2. Hair ; 3.1.3. Eyes; 3.1.4. Pharmaceuticals and cosmaceuticals ; 3.2. Foods ; 3.2.1. Meat and Seafood ; 3.2.2. Dairy ; 3.2.3. Crops ; 3.3. Materials.

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