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Summary: Monochromatic light was provided by a continuous wave Argon ion laser. We chose to study the in vitro effects of light at 457.9, 465.8, 476.5, 488.0, 501.7, and 514.5 nm as representative of a reasonably evenly spaced sampling across the blue-green spectrum. The in vivo experiments were conducted at 457.9, 476.5, 488.0, and 514.5 nm.
In vitro light at 488.0 nm appeared to be more effective than the others studied.
After 24 h of irradiance, the in vivo decline in serum bilirubin concentration produced by light at 488.0 nm was one-and-one-half, two, and four times as effective as light at 457.9, 476.5 and 514.5 nm, respectively. By 48 h of exposure, the declines produced by light at 457.9 nm and 488.0 nm are significantly superior to that at 476.5 nm and 514.5 nm, but they do not differ from one another.
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Gutcher, G., Yen, W. & Odell, G. The in Vitro and in Vivo Photoreactivity of Bilirubin: I. Laser-Defined Wavelength Dependence. Pediatr Res 17, 120–123 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198302000-00008
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