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Table 1 Search strategy for retrieval of references from MEDLINE

From: Evaluating the evidence for macrophage presence in skeletal muscle and its relation to insulin resistance in obese mice and humans: a systematic review protocol

Database

Search strategies

MEDLINE

1. Muscles/

 

2. muscle*.ti.ab.kf.

 

3. exp Muscle, Skeletal/

 

4. (abdominal muscle* or pelvic floor or rectus abdominis or back muscles or intermediate back muscle* or paraspinal muscle* or superficial back muscle* or deltoid muscle* or facial muscle* or laryngeal muscle* or masticatory muscle* or masseter muscle* or pterygoid muscle* or temporal muscle* or neck muscle* or oculomotor muscle* or palatal muscle* or pectoralis muscle* or pharyngeal muscle* or upper esophageal sphincter* or velopharyngeal sphincter* or psoas muscle* or quadriceps muscle* or respiratory muscle* or diaphragm* or intercostal muscle* or rotator cuff* or stapedius or tensor tympani).ti.ab.kf.

 

5. or/1-4

 

6. Macrophages/

 

7. Epithelioid Cells/

 

8. Foam Cells/

 

9. Giant Cells, Foreign-Body/

 

10. Giant Cells, Langhans/

 

11. macrophage*.ti.ab.kf.

 

12. (epithelioid cell* or foam cell* or (giant cell* adj3 foreign-body) or (giant cell* adj3 langhans)).ti.ab.kf.

 

13. or/6-12

 

14. exp Obesity/

 

15. obese.ti.ab.kf.

 

16. obesity.ti.ab.kf.

 

17. overweight.ti.ab.kf.

 

18. over weight.ti.ab.kf.

 

19. Overweight/

 

20. Metabolic Syndrome X/

 

21. metabolic syndrome x.mp.

 

22. or/14-21

 

23. 5 and 13 and 22

 

24. remove duplicates from 23