Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

Abstract Background Invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) remain important causes of morbidity and mortality. The consensus definitions of the Infectious Diseases Group of the Europea...

MitoFinder: Efficient automated large‐scale extraction of mitogenomic data in target enrichment phylogenomics

Abstract Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine infe...

Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

Mucormycosis is a difficult to diagnose rare disease with high morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis is often delayed, and disease tends to progress rapidly. Urgent surgical and me...

THE NINTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY

ABSTRACT The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9)...

Two Randomized Trials of Canakinumab in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

These two phase 3 studies show the efficacy of canakinumab in systemic JIA with active systemic features. (Funded by Novartis Pharma; ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT00889863 and...

Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

The human genome project has been recently complemented by whole-genome assessment sequence of 32 mammals and 24 nonmammalian vertebrate species suitable for comparative genomic...

The Release 6 reference sequence of the <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> genome

Drosophila melanogaster plays an important role in molecular, genetic, and genomic studies of heredity, development, metabolism, behavior, and human disease. The initial referen...

Topographical organization of cortical afferents to extrastriate visual area PO in the macaque: A dual tracer study

Abstract We have examined the origin and topography of cortical projections to area PO, an extrastriate visual area located in the parieto‐occipital sulcus of the macaque. Disti...

Tumor-derived microvesicles modulate the establishment of metastatic melanoma in a phosphatidylserine-dependent manner