Steps to Start your Search Process in PubMed
- Open MeSH Search Browser
- Search for your topic (for example: choose from list of proteins on Dr. Tidwell's list)
- Locate the MeSH Subject Heading
- Copy the MeSH Subject Heading
- Go to PubMed and Follow the Advanced Search Strategy Directions in the graph. PowerPoint Instructions are included too.
Steps in the Advanced Search Strategy
Step 1. Be sure your are in the PubMed database. Choose Advanced
PowerPoint instruction for PubMed searching
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PubMed
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.
The PubMed database contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
PubMed User Guide
MeSH Browser (Medical Subject Headings)
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the National Library of Medicine controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.
MeSH Browser Overview
Example MeSH Subject Headings
MeSH Subject Heading: Prion Proteins
Scope Note : Membrane glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins that may aggregate into rod-like structures. The prion protein (PRNP) gene is characterized by five TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES that encode a highly unstable protein region of five octapeptide repeats. Mutations in the repeat region and elsewhere in this gene are associated with CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER DISEASE; Huntington disease-like 1, and KURU.
Advanced Search Strategy
PubMed Help: narrow your search results
Article Type: PubMEed Publication Characteristics
Example: What is a Systematic Review?
| Systematic Review | A review of primary literature in health and health policy that attempts to identify, appraise, and synthesize all the empirical evidence that meets specified eligibility criteria to answer a given research question. Its conduct uses explicit methods aimed at minimizing bias in order to produce more reliable findings regarding the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation that can be used to inform decision making. |
