30 Capsaicin Terms
- In your Word document, type your concept word — capsaicin.
This will be the first term for your capsaicin concept. Then proceed to the MeSH database where you will find alternate terms for the concept:
- Click on the PubMed.gov logo in the upper left corner of the page to return to the PubMed homepage.
- Find the “Explore” list and click on the “MeSH Database” link.
- Enter — capsaicin — in the search box.
- Hit the “Search” button.
- After reaching the MeSH search results, click on the “Capsaicin” link.
- Are there any terms in the heading definition that you want to add to the term list?
- Copy the entry term list (see red box in figure below) and paste the list it beneath the words already in your capsaicin term list in your Word document .
- Next, delete all the multi-word phrases that contain either the word capsaicin or the word capsicum. These phrases will be retrieved by the single-word search terms already in your term list.
Does your list include the following terms? (The order of the terms is not important.)
capsaicin
Capsicum
Capsaicine
8-Methyl-N-Vanillyl-6-Nonenamide
8 Methyl N Vanillyl 6 Nonenamide
Axsain
Zacin
Capsidol
Zostrix
Capzasin
Gelcen
Katrum
NGX-4010
NGX 4010
NGX4010
Capsin
If not, correct your list of terms.
Next:
- Put quotes around the multi-word terms (any terms containing spaces).
- OR together the list of terms to make one search statement
- Put parentheses around the OR’d together terms so that the PubMed search engine will retrieve a set of results for the capsaicin concept before doing any adjacent operations.