In this review we want to summarize the results of the placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials with betablocking adrenergic agents during electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and review the effect on seizure duration and cardiovascular variables. We searched for studies in the electronic databases Medline.

Since the MEDLINE database was released, the number of documents indexed by this entity has risen every year. Several tools have been developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to query this corpus of scientific publications. However, in terms of advances in big data, text-mining and data science, an option to build a local relational database containing all metadata available on MEDL...

Many abbreviations are used in the literature especially in the life sciences, and polysemous abbreviations appear frequently, making it difficult to read and understand scientific papers that are outside of a reader's expertise. Thus, we have developed Allie, a database and a search service of abbreviations and their long forms (a.k.a. full forms or definitions). Allie searches for abbreviatio...

Research in bioinformatics in the past decade has generated a large volume of textual biological data stored in databases such as MEDLINE. It takes a copious amount of effort and time, even for expert users, to manually extract useful information embedded in such a large volume of retrieved data and automated intelligent text analysis tools are increasingly becoming essential. In this article, ...

OBJECTIVES Large databases of published medical research can support clinical decision making by providing physicians with the best available evidence. The time required to obtain optimal results from these databases using traditional systems often makes accessing the databases impractical for clinicians. This article explores whether a hybrid approach of augmenting traditional information retr...

Background: Paradigm is the set of acceptability of agents in a field, which provide a framework in which context the scientists’ research to solve scientific problems and regulate the series of studies in the field. Aim: The purpose of this paper is a review of the nursing paradigm. Method: This review was undertaken by library studies using databases such as CINHAL, MEDLINE, Web of Sciences b...

Methods The following databases were used to find studies of music therapy in oncology: AMED, CAIRSS, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, and PSYNDEX. The search terms were [“Study OR Trial” AND “Music Therapy” AND “Cancer or Oncology”]. Included studies were analysed with respect to their study design and quality, setting and interventions including date of publication, indications, patients and main ...

Background: Tagging gene/protein names in text and mapping them to database entries are critical tasks in biological literature mining. Most of the existing tagging and normalization approaches, however, have not been evaluated for practical use in article retrieval towards efficient biocuration. Results: By utilizing literature cross-reference information provided by NCBI Entrez Gene database,...

conclusions although iranian publications in the field of nephrology and urology have had a considerable and significant increase in the recent years amongst the middle eastern countries, there is a wide distance to be a science exporter country. results the total number of publications in the field of nephrology and urology was 3,771 (average of 189 papers per year). most of the iranian nephro...