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For the MEDLINE database, the efetch function fromwith the E-utilities you can retrieve the abstract among other bibliographic attributes of:

  1. Use the esearch function to retrieve the PubMed ID (PMID) of the article that includes the DOI as a term (presumably only one article):

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=pubmed&WebEnv=1&usehistory=y&term=10.1021/bi902153g

  1. Then, use efetch function to retrieve the abstract among other bibliographic attributes of the article (you need to pass the query_key and WebEnv returned earlier by esearch).

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&retmode=XML&rettype=abstract&query_key=1&WebEnv=something


If you have the articlePMID, it is one step with efetch:

For the MEDLINE database, the efetch function from the E-utilities can retrieve the abstract among other bibliographic attributes of the article:

For the MEDLINE database, with the E-utilities you can:

  1. Use the esearch function to retrieve the PubMed ID (PMID) of the article that includes the DOI as a term (presumably only one article):

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=pubmed&WebEnv=1&usehistory=y&term=10.1021/bi902153g

  1. Then, use efetch function to retrieve the abstract among other bibliographic attributes of the article (you need to pass the query_key and WebEnv returned earlier by esearch).

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&retmode=XML&rettype=abstract&query_key=1&WebEnv=something


If you have the PMID, it is one step with efetch:

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For the MEDLINE database, the efetch function from the E-utilities can retrieve the abstract among other bibliographic attributes of the article: