The ''Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research'' is a
peer-reviewed
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open-access scientific journal
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Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as s ...
in the fields of
biology and
medicine, edited and published monthly by the
Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica (ABDC), a
federation of Brazilian scientific societies comprising:
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Sociedade Brasileira de Biofísica
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Sociedade Brasileira de Farmacologia e Terapêutica Experimental
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Sociedade Brasileira de Fisiologia
The Brazilian Society of Physiology (Sociedade Brasileira de Fisiologia, in Portuguese language, official abbreviation SBFis) is a learned society and association of students and professionals in physiology in Brazil. It is a member of the Brazili ...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Imunologia
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Sociedade Brasileira de Investigação Clínica
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Sociedade Brasileira de Neurociências e Comportamento
It is now published as part of the
Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO) project.
History
The journal was established in 1968 by
Michel Jamra as ''Revista Brasileira de Pesquisas Médicas e Biológicas'', published in Portuguese. It obtained its current title in 1981, when ABDC assumed its publication, accepting papers in English only. The initial
editors-in-chief were
Lewis Joel Greene
Lewis Joel Greene (born August 10, 1934) is an American Brazilian biochemist, scientist, university professor and editor of the '' Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research''.
Greene received a BA in liberal arts from Amherst Col ...
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Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, and
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (October 4, 1934 – July 17, 2016) was a Brazilian physician and pharmacologist noted for the discovery of the bradykinin potentiating factor, which led to new and widely used anti- hypertension drugs — the ACE inhibi ...
(Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto). Of the original three, only Greene remains as editor.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
References
External links
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Biology journals
General medical journals
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of Brazil
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