Search scholarly, peer-reviewed literature in the biomedical sciences.
PubMed is a database created by the National Library of Medicine to facilitate searching the biomedical literature. The MEDLINE databases found within PubMed contains journals that have been reviewed by a panel of experts for quality. PubMed also contains PMC, which contains publicly accessible literature that have not necessarily gone through the same review process.
Use this tutorial to learn about advanced search features in PubMed. While the examples use clinical questions, MeSH can also be used for many biomedical science concepts, including organism names and classification.
For animal research, see the MeSH record for Mice as an example. While this is for the while species, there are many more specific terms for common research strains.