Healthy Volunteers

"Healthy Volunteers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Persons with no known significant health problems who are recruited to participate in research to test a new drug, device, or intervention as controls for a patient group. (from http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/recruit/volunteers.html, accessed 2/14/2013)

Descriptor ID	D064368
MeSH Number(s)	M01.774.500 M01.955.236
Concept/Terms	Healthy Volunteers Healthy Volunteers Healthy Volunteer Volunteer, Healthy Healthy Participants Healthy Participant Participant, Healthy Participants, Healthy Healthy Subjects Healthy Subject Subject, Healthy Subjects, Healthy Human Volunteers Human Volunteers Human Volunteer Volunteer, Human Volunteers, Human Normal Volunteers Normal Volunteers Normal Volunteer Volunteer, Normal Volunteers, Normal

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Healthy Volunteers".

Named Groups [M]
Persons [M01]
Research Subjects [M01.774]
Healthy Volunteers [M01.774.500]
Volunteers [M01.955]
Healthy Volunteers [M01.955.236]

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publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Healthy Volunteers" by people in this website by year, and whether "Healthy Volunteers" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 61 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2013	0	4	4
2014	0	10	10
2015	0	6	6
2016	2	7	9
2017	0	7	7
2018	0	9	9
2019	0	7	7
2020	0	5	5
2021	0	2	2
2024	0	1	1
2025	0	1	1

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Zareei A, Razeghinejad R, Talebnejad MR, Khalili MR, Masoumpour MS, Shayan Z, Mahdaviazad H, Keshtkar M, Mohammadi E, Tajbakhsh Z, Nowroozzadeh MH. Establishing normal interocular symmetry range for macular optical coherence tomography parameters in healthy children. Eye (Lond). 2025 02; 39(3):563-569.

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Weir TB, DeTullio L, Patel SJ, Lorenzana DJ, Arango SD, Livesey MG, Gilotra MN, Osterman AL, Miller AJ. Validation of Temperature Sensors to Monitor Thermoplastic Splint Wear in Hand Surgery Patients. Hand (N Y). 2025 Sep; 20(6):923-930.

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Weinberg DS, Foster NR, Della'Zanna G, McMurray RP, Kraft WK, Pallotto A, Kastenberg DM, Katz LC, Henry CH, Moleski SM, Limburg PJ, Waldman SA. Phase I double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of dolcanatide (SP-333) 27 mg to explore colorectal bioactivity in healthy volunteers. Cancer Biol Ther. 2021 12 02; 22(10-12):544-553.

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Korkmaz A, Doganay B, Basyigit F, ??teli C, Yildiz A, Gursoy T, Guray U, Elalmis OU. Serum Thiol Levels and Thiol/Disulfide Homeostasis in Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease and Healthy Subjects. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2021 09; 117(3):437-443.

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Caccese JB, Bodt BA, Iverson GL, Kaminski TW, Bryk K, Oldham J, Broglio SP, McCrea M, McAllister T, Buckley TA. Estimated Age of First Exposure to Contact Sports and Neurocognitive, Psychological, and Physical Outcomes in Healthy NCAA Collegiate Athletes: A Cohort Study. Sports Med. 2020 Jul; 50(7):1377-1392.

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Lam E, Schaefer J, Zheng R, Zhan T, Kraft WK. Twice-Daily Doravirine Overcomes the Interaction Effect from Once-Weekly Rifapentine and Isoniazid in Healthy Volunteers. Clin Transl Sci. 2020 11; 13(6):1244-1250.

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Peterman JE, Harber MP, Imboden MT, Whaley MH, Fleenor BS, Myers J, Arena R, Finch WH, Kaminsky LA. Accuracy of Nonexercise Prediction Equations for Assessing Longitudinal Changes to Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults: BALL ST Cohort. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 06 02; 9(11):e015117.

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Migdal KU, Babcock MC, Robinson AT, Watso JC, Wenner MM, Stocker SD, Farquhar WB. The Impact of High Dietary Sodium Consumption on Blood Pressure Variability in Healthy, Young Adults. Am J Hypertens. 2020 04 29; 33(5):422-429.

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Eleiwa TK, Elsawy A, Syed ZA, Roongpoovapatr V, Sayed AM, Yoo SH, Abou Shousha M. In-vivo Three-dimensional Characteristics of Bowman's Layer and Endothelium/Descemet's Complex Using Corneal Microlayer Tomography in Healthy Subjects. Curr Eye Res. 2020 06; 45(6):659-667.

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Patel P, Naik MU, Golla K, Shaik NF, Naik UP. Calcium-induced dissociation of CIB1 from ASK1 regulates agonist-induced activation of the p38 MAPK pathway in platelets. Biochem J. 2019 10 15; 476(19):2835-2850.

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