 Placebos
"Placebos" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Placebos" by people in this website by year, and whether "Placebos" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Placebos" by people in Profiles.
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Wassif CA, Kratz L, Sparks SE, Wheeler C, Bianconi S, Gropman A, Calis KA, Kelley RI, Tierney E, Porter FD. A placebo-controlled trial of simvastatin therapy in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. Genet Med. 2017 03; 19(3):297-305.
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Nagamani SC, Shchelochkov OA, Mullins MA, Carter S, Lanpher BC, Sun Q, Kleppe S, Erez A, O'Brian Smith E, Marini JC. A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of high-dose versus low-dose of arginine therapy on hepatic function tests in argininosuccinic aciduria. Mol Genet Metab. 2012 Nov; 107(3):315-21.
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Diazgranados N, Ibrahim L, Brutsche NE, Newberg A, Kronstein P, Khalife S, Kammerer WA, Quezado Z, Luckenbaugh DA, Salvadore G, Machado-Vieira R, Manji HK, Zarate CA. A randomized add-on trial of an N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist in treatment-resistant bipolar depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Aug; 67(8):793-802.
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Curry SE, Finkel JC. Use of the Synera patch for local anesthesia before vascular access procedures: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Pain Med. 2007 Sep; 8(6):497-502.
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Natale JE, Guerguerian AM, Joseph JG, McCarter R, Shao C, Slomine B, Christensen J, Johnston MV, Shaffner DH. Pilot study to determine the hemodynamic safety and feasibility of magnesium sulfate infusion in children with severe traumatic brain injury. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007 Jan; 8(1):1-9.
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Freeman BB, Hinds P, Iacono LC, Razzouk BI, Burghen E, Stewart CF. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of intravenous epoetin alfa in children with cancer. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Oct 15; 47(5):572-9.
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Hinds PS, Hockenberry M, Feusner J, Hord JD, Rackoff W, Rozzouk BI. Hemoglobin response and improvements in quality of life in anemic children with cancer receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy. J Support Oncol. 2005 Nov-Dec; 3(6 Suppl 4):10-1.
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Stein MA, Waldman ID, Sarampote CS, Seymour KE, Robb AS, Conlon C, Kim SJ, Cook EH. Dopamine transporter genotype and methylphenidate dose response in children with ADHD. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2005 Jul; 30(7):1374-82.
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Wagner KD, Robb AS, Findling RL, Jin J, Gutierrez MM, Heydorn WE. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of citalopram for the treatment of major depression in children and adolescents. Am J Psychiatry. 2004 Jun; 161(6):1079-83.
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Lustig RH, Hinds PS, Ringwald-Smith K, Christensen RK, Kaste SC, Schreiber RE, Rai SN, Lensing SY, Wu S, Xiong X. Octreotide therapy of pediatric hypothalamic obesity: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2003 Jun; 88(6):2586-92.
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