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Suggested
answer for Exercise 4
Click the Steps to run the demonstration.
Exercise
4 - MeSH Database
Use the MeSH
Database to build a strategy that will find citations to articles
about schizophrenia resulting from prenatal exposure to influenza.
Schizophrenia and influenza should be the major topics of the articles.
This is a suggested
answer. Your approach, as well as the number of results retrieved,
may vary. New citations are added regularly to PubMed.
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1: Click on MeSH Database on the PubMed sidebar beneath PubMed
Services.
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2: Enter your first term (schizophrenia) in the query box.
Click Go.
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3: Click the Schizophrenia term link to see the Full display for this term.
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4: Click on the check box next to "Restrict Search to
Major Topic headings only" to restrict the search to only
those articles in which schizophrenia is a major topic. Select
Search Box with AND from the Send to menu.
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5: Enter your next term (prenatal exposure) in the query
box. Click Go.
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6: Prenatal exposure is not a MeSH term. However, the MeSH
database retrieves the term, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects.
Read the definition for the term Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
to make sure this term correctly represents your concept. Click
the check box next to the term. Next, select Search Box with
AND from the Send to menu.
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7: Enter your last term (influenza) in the query box. Click
Go.
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8: Click the Influenza, Human term link to see the Full display
for this term. Click on the check box next to "Restrict
Search to Major Topic headings only" to restrict the search
to only those articles in which human influenza is a major topic. Select
Search Box with AND from the Send to menu.
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9: Click the Search PubMed button to run the
search in PubMed.
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