Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Biology
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and medicine
Medicine
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, edited and published monthly by the Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica (ABDC), a federation
Federation
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of Brazilian scientific societies comprising:
- Sociedade Brasileira de Biofísica (SBBf)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Farmacologia e Terapêutica Experimental (SBFTE)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Fisiologia (SBFis)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Imunologia (SBI)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Investigação Clínica (SBIC)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Neurociências e Comportamento (SBNeC).
The journal has its editorial offices at the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto
Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto is a medical school of the University of São Paulo located in the city of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, Brazil, founded 1952...
, Universidade de São Paulo, in Ribeirão Preto
Ribeirão Preto
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, state of Sao Paulo
São Paulo
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, Brazil
Brazil
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.
It was founded in the 1960s as Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas Médicas e Biológicas, a journal in Portuguese serving SBIC, by Dr. Michel Jamra. In 1981, ABDC assumed its publication, accepting papers in English only, with the aim to transform it rapidly into a peer-reviewed, indexed, high-impact publication. The initial editors were three professors and scientists from the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, Lewis Joel Greene
Lewis Joel Greene
Lewis Joel Greene is an American Brazilian biochemist, scientist, university professor and editor of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research....
(an American-born biochemist), Eduardo Moacyr Krieger (a physiologist) and Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira , Brazil, Brazilian physician and pharmacologist, noted for his discovery of Bradykinin potentiating factor, which led to better anti-hypertension drugs.Ferreira received his M.D...
(a pharmacologist). Of the original trio, only Dr. Greene remains as editor.
Its abbreviated title is Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res.. The journal is indexed by MEDLINE
MEDLINE
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, Index Medicus
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, Science Citation Index
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, Current Contents
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Life Sciences, Biological Abstracts
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, Excerpta Medica
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, PsycInfo
PsycINFO
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and LILACS.
The Brazilian Journal was one of the very first in Brazil to be published on-line on the Web with an open access model, through a 1996 project of the e*pub on-line publishing group directed by Dr. Renato M.E. Sabbatini at the Center for Biomedical Informatics of the State University of Campinas. It is now published as part of the Scientific Electronic Library (SciELo) project by Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information or BIREME was founded in Brazil in 1967 as the Biblioteca Regional de Medicina , a specialized center of the Pan-American Health Organization / World Health Organization .BIREME coordinates the model development of the Virtual...
and Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP).