PubMed Search - Pharos

Pharos is linked to PubMed to help jumpstart your literature searches. PubMed is a database maintained by the US National Institute of Health that comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

On a chemical page in Pharos, you can click the "Show PubMed Results" box to display a row for PubMed hits, which indicates how many and links to search results PubMed returns for this chemical and each hazard endpoint.

To build these searches, we need to search for the chemical and the endpoint. For the chemical, the search terms we use are the CAS registry number, chemical name, and any synonyms we have. For the endpoint, we collected one or more terms for each endpoint. In some cases, PubMed expands our searches using additional endpoint descriptors in the MeSH database, e.g. a search for 'cancer' automatically includes 'neoplasms'.

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Endpoint Abbreviation	Endpoint Name	Synonyms
C	Carcinogenicity	cancer carcinogen* malignant neoplasm malignant tumor
M	Mutagenicity/Genotoxicity	genotoxic* mutagen* mutation*
R	Reproductive Toxicity	reproductive toxicity
D	Developmental Toxicity incl. developmental neurotoxicity	altered growth birth defect* developmental toxicity functional deficiency low birth weight structural abnormality
E	Endocrine Activity	endocrine activity endocrine disrupt*
AT	Acute Mammalian Toxicity	acute mammalian toxicity acute toxicity
ST	Systemic Toxicity/Organ Effects-Single Exposure	organ effects systemic toxicity
ST	Systemic Toxicity/Organ Effects incl. immunotoxicity-Repeated Exposure	organ effects systemic toxicity
N	Neurotoxicity-Single Exposure	neurotoxic*
N	Neurotoxicity-Repeated Exposure	neurotoxic*
SnS	Skin Sensitization	skin sensitiz*
SnR	Respiratory Sensitization	asthma hypersensitivity of the airways respiratory sensitiz* rhinitis
IrS	Skin Irritation/Corrosivity	damage to skin skin irritation
IrE	Eye Irritation/Corrosivity	damage to skin
AA	Acute Aquatic Toxicity	eye irritation
CA	Chronic Aquatic Toxicity	acute aquatic toxicity
P	Persistence	persistence
B	Bioaccumulation	bioaccumulat* biomagnific*
Rx	Reactivity	explode spontaneously ignite
F	Flammability	flammability
PBT	PBT (Persistence, Bioaccumulation & Toxicity)	pbt persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic
GW	Global Warming	global warming
O	Ozone Depletion	ozone depletion