 Placebos
"Placebos" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Any dummy medication or treatment. Although placebos originally were medicinal preparations having no specific pharmacological activity against a targeted condition, the concept has been extended to include treatments or procedures, especially those administered to control groups in clinical trials in order to provide baseline measurements for the experimental protocol.
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D010919
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.660 E02.785
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Placebos" by people in Profiles.
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Warady BA, Iles JN, Ariceta G, Dehmel B, Hidalgo G, Jiang X, Laskin B, Shahinfar S, Vande Walle J, Schaefer F. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy and safety of cinacalcet in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease and secondary hyperparathyroidism receiving dialysis. Pediatr Nephrol. 2019 03; 34(3):475-486.
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Le TT, Kuplicki R, Yeh HW, Aupperle RL, Khalsa SS, Simmons WK, Paulus MP. Effect of Ibuprofen on BrainAGE: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Dose-Response Exploratory?Study. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2018 10; 3(10):836-843.
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Miller FG, Lantos J. Editors' Introduction. Perspect Biol Med. 2016; 59(1):1.
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Bellieni CV, Taddio A, Linebarger JS, Lantos JD. Should an IRB approve a placebo-controlled randomized trial of analgesia for procedural pain in neonates? Pediatrics. 2012 Sep; 130(3):550-3.
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Srivastava T, Haney CJ, Alon US. Atorvastatin may have no effect on acute phase reaction in children after intravenous bisphosphonate infusion. J Bone Miner Res. 2009 Feb; 24(2):334-7.
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Fonseca-Aten M, Okada PJ, Bowlware KL, Chavez-Bueno S, Mejias A, Rios AM, Katz K, Olsen K, Ng S, Jafri HS, McCracken GH, Ramilo O, Hardy RD. Effect of clarithromycin on cytokines and chemokines in children with an acute exacerbation of recurrent wheezing: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2006 Oct; 97(4):457-63.
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Boardman T, Catley D, Mayo MS, Ahluwalia JS. Self-efficacy and motivation to quit during participation in a smoking cessation program. Int J Behav Med. 2005; 12(4):266-72.
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Zisook S, Peterkin J, Goggin KJ, Sledge P, Atkinson JH, Grant I. Treatment of major depression in HIV-seropositive men. HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center Group. J Clin Psychiatry. 1998 May; 59(5):217-24.
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Woods GM, Jorgensen JH, Waclawiw MA, Reid C, Wang W, Pegelow CH, Rogers ZR, Iyer RV, Holbrook CT, Kinney TR, Vichinsky E, DeBaun MR, Grossman NJ, Thomas MD, Falletta JM. Influence of penicillin prophylaxis on antimicrobial resistance in nasopharyngeal S. pneumoniae among children with sickle cell anemia. The Ancillary Nasopharyngeal Culture Study of Prophylactic Penicillin Study II. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 1997 Jul-Aug; 19(4):327-33.
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