Exercise Physiology:
Academic Resources
Frederic Murray
Assistant Professor
MLIS, University of British Columbia
BA, Political Science, University of Iowa
Instructional Services Librarian
Al Harris Library
frederic.murray@swosu.edu
Assignment
• Students are to find a peer-reviewed
article about the Endocrine System
how individual hormones affect
exercise and exercise performance.
Peer Reviewed
MeSH
• MeSH is the National Library of
Medicine's controlled vocabulary
thesaurus
• Medical Subject Headings
• Using MeSH terms will improve your
search results
MeSH
• Example: "Vitamin C" is an entry term
to "Ascorbic Acid
• MeSH thesaurus is used by NLM for
indexing articles from 5,400 of the
world's leading biomedical journals
• MEDLINE/ PubMed database
Hormones
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Growth hormone
Antidiuretic hormone
Thyroid hormone
Calcitonin
Parathyroid hormone
Cortisol
Aldosterone
epinephrine/norepinephrine
Insulin
Glucagon
Testosterone
Estrogen
Assignment
• Students are to find a peer-reviewed
article about the Endocrine System
how individual hormones affect
exercise and exercise performance.
Keywords
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Endocrine System
Exercise or Activity or Competition
Athletic Performance or Sports Performance
Physical Endurance or Physical Fitness
• Hormone: Cortisol
Boolean
• AND = Narrow
• OR = Expand
• NOT = Exclude
Boolean
Cortisol and Exercise and Performance
Endocrine system and Cortisol
Cortisol and Sports Performance and Endocrine
Mesh Browser
• Search: Cortisol
• Cortisol: Hydrocortisone or Epicortisol
in the entry terms
• Search: Hydrocortisone and exercise
in (full text) Medline:
Stokes, K., Gilbert, K., Hall, G., Andrews, R., & Thompson, D. (2013).
Different responses of selected hormones to three types of exercise in
young men. European Journal Of Applied Physiology, 113(3), 775-783.
doi:10.1007/s00421-012-2487-5
Databases (A-Z List)
• MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
• MEDLINE PubMed (from NLM)
• Ovid Core Biomedical and ADIS
Journals ( they factor MeSH terms)
• Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary
• AccessMedicine
Questions?
• Contact me:
• Frederic Murray
• 774-7113
• frederic.murray@swosu.edu
Thanks!