PubMed comprises over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
In general, when searching PubMed or one of the other MEDLINE interfaces it is a food idea to use the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to find relevant articles. PubMed includes a searchable MeSH Database to help identify the best search terns. There are a number of MeSH terms that apply to animal sciences. Whenever one of these terms is used, be sure to include the [MESH] notation so that the system is triggered to look for the term as a subject heading and not a phrase.
Here is a sampling of standard MeSH terms (click on the keyword to see the MeSH definition, if available):
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"Bonding, Human-Pet" [MESH] |
"Housing, Animal" [MESH] |
These terms can be combined to produce a customized search for your research topic.
