Animals

This option adds the following to your search all combined with OR:

animal:de (includes animal experiment, animal cell, animal tissue and animal model)
invertebrate/exp
amphibia/exp
bird/exp
fish/exp
carnivora/exp
cetacea/exp
lagomorph/exp
ape/exp
monkey/exp
(mammal/exp NOT human/exp)
rodent/exp
sirenia/exp
ungulate/exp
reptile/exp
cercopithecidae/exp
primate/de
haplorhini/de
macaca/de

 

Notes:

  • To specify Animal Study Type, click More Limits and select the options listed under this heading.
  • Animal records may also include information on humans or other organisms in the same record. Searches limited to both Humans and Animals will contain information on both.

NOTE for POST-DEC 2010 RELEASE: The animal limit was extended in this release to include all the terms mentioned above.  Using this limit when searching post dec 2010 release will now retrieve about twice as many hits as before. Please see examples below:

For All Years in Embase: 

Previous limit:   2,497,385

Extended animal limit:   5,233,856

For 2010 only in Embase:

Previous limit:   76,033

Extended animal limit:   159,468 

PLEASE NOTE:

·         In all cases there are more hits because Medline unique records are now retrieved as part of your search results (Medline does not index most of the terms that contributed to the old limit).

·         From 2010 onwards, the automatically indexed records (this is conference abstracts, Articles in Press and In Process) are now retrieved