Wednesday, May 11, 2011

heart failure -- keywords and MeSH

("Heart Failure"[Mesh] OR "heart failure" OR "cardiac failure" OR "systolic failure" OR "diastolic failure" OR "congestive failure" OR "high-output failure" OR "high output failure" OR "low-output failure" OR "low output failure" OR "right-sided failure" OR "right sided failure" OR "left-sided failure" OR "left sided failure" OR "ventricular failure" OR "auricular failure" OR "atrial failure" OR "myocardial failure" OR "cardiac decompensation" OR "heart decompensation" OR “cardiac insufficiency” OR “myocardial insufficiency” OR CHF OR "cardiac edema" OR "paroxysmal dyspnea" )

narcolepsy -- keywords and MeSH

("Narcolepsy"[Mesh] OR narcoleps* OR "excessive daytime sleepiness" OR cataplex* OR "hypnagogic hallucinations" OR "hypnagogic hallucination" OR "sleep paralysis" OR "sleep paralyses" OR hypersomnolen* OR hypocretin*)

sodium oxybate -- keywords and MeSH

This search statement was designed to look for articles about the prescription variety of sodium oxybate, not the street drug.

("Sodium Oxybate"[Mesh] OR Oxybat* OR oxibato OR NSC84223 OR Gamma-hydroxybutyrate OR Wy3478 OR 4-hydroxybutyrate OR Alcover OR "Gamma-OH"[tiab] OR Somsanit OR Xyrem)

The following hyphenated and multi-word names were removed because they were not recognized by PubMed and were causing retrieval of irrelevant results:
NSC-84223
Wy-3478
Wy-3478
"NSC 84223"
"Wy 3478"

prostate cancer -- keywords and MeSH

("Prostatic Neoplasms"[Mesh] OR (prostate OR prostates OR prostatic) AND (cancer OR cancers OR cancerous OR carcinoma* OR adenocarcinoma* OR neoplasm* OR neoplastic OR tumor OR tumors OR tumour* OR malignan* OR metastatic OR metastasis OR metastases))

Sipuleucel-T -- keywords and MeSH

keywords
(Sipuleucel-T OR "sipuleucel t" OR APC-8015 OR APC8015 OR "APC 8015" OR provenge)

MeSH (the "tissue extracts" heading is included incase the searcher wishes to associated the "sipuleucel-t" concept with a subheading):
("sipuleucel-T "[Substance Name] AND "Tissue Extracts"[Mesh])

oxytocin -- keywords and MeSH

("Oxytocin"[mesh] OR oxytocin* OR Hipofamina OR Ocitocina OR Oksitocinas OR Oksitosiini OR Oksitosin OR Oxitocin OR Oxitocina OR Oxytocine OR Oxytocinum OR Comxytocin OR Estima OR Evatocin OR Fetusin OR Gynotocin OR Hipofisina OR Induxin OR Lavoxin OR Naox OR NeOxyn OR Obcin OR Octocin OR Orasthin OR Orastina OR Otoxin OR Oxiton OR Oxitone OR Oxitopisa OR Oxtimon OR Oxyla OR Oxymed OR Oxyten OR Partocon OR Pitocin OR Pitogin OR Piton-S OR Postuitrin OR Roxipan OR Santocyn OR Solvoxine OR Synpitan OR Syntocinon OR Syntometrin OR Syntometrine OR Tocinox OR Toesen OR Tranoxy OR Veracuril OR Xitocin)

The following hyphenated and multi-word names were removed because they were not recognized by PubMed and were causing retrieval of irrelevant results:
Alpha-hypophamine
"Alpha hypophamine"

diabetic neuropathy -- keywords and MeSH

("Diabetic Neuropathies"[Mesh] OR ((diabetic* OR diabetes) AND (neuropath* OR polyneuropath* OR amyotroph* OR neuralgi* OR mononeuropath* OR dysesthe* OR dysaesthe* OR paresthe* OR paraesthe* OR allodyni*)))