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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Facility•Rio de Janeiro, Brazil•
About: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation is a facility organization based out in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Trypanosoma cruzi. The organization has 18673 authors who have published 36752 publications receiving 802378 citations. The organization is also known as: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz & FIOCRUZ.
Topics: Population, Trypanosoma cruzi, Immune system, Leishmania, Health care
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Pasteur Institute1, New York State Department of Health2, Public Health Research Institute3, Leeds General Infirmary4, St George's Hospital5, International Trademark Association6, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention7, University of Surrey8, Universidade Federal de Pelotas9, Robert Koch Institute10, University of Palermo11, University of Florence12, University of Gothenburg13, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul14, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation15, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research16
TL;DR: To facilitate the analysis of hundreds of spoligotypes each made up of a binary succession of 43 bits of information, a number of major and minor visual rules were also defined to define 36 major clades (or families) of M. tuberculosis.
Abstract: The present update on the global distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex spoligotypes provides both the octal and binary descriptions of the spoligotypes for M. tuberculosis complex, including Mycobacterium bovis, from >90 countries (13,008 patterns grouped into 813 shared types containing 11,708 isolates and 1,300 orphan patterns). A number of potential indices were developed to summarize the information on the biogeographical specificity of a given shared type, as well as its geographical spreading (matching code and spreading index, respectively). To facilitate the analysis of hundreds of spoligotypes each made up of a binary succession of 43 bits of information, a number of major and minor visual rules were also defined. A total of six major rules (A to F) with the precise description of the extra missing spacers (minor rules) were used to define 36 major clades (or families) of M. tuberculosis. Some major clades identified were the East African-Indian (EAI) clade, the Beijing clade, the Haarlem clade, the Latin American and Mediterranean (LAM) clade, the Central Asian (CAS) clade, a European clade of IS6110 low banders (X; highly prevalent in the United States and United Kingdom), and a widespread yet poorly defined clade (T). When the visual rules defined above were used for an automated labeling of the 813 shared types to define nine superfamilies of strains (Mycobacterium africanum, Beijing, M. bovis, EAI, CAS, T, Haarlem, X, and LAM), 96.9% of the shared types received a label, showing the potential for automated labeling of M. tuberculosis families in well-defined phylogeographical families. Intercontinental matches of shared types among eight continents and subcontinents (Africa, North America, Central America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, and the Far East) are analyzed and discussed.
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TL;DR: This work presents the compilation list of fecal shape and measurements available in the literature published in North America, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, and new data from Brazil, and concludes that shape and diameters are the best characteristics for taxonomic identification.
Abstract: The study of feces of terrestrial mammals brings out biological and ecological data such as the species presence, diet, behaviour, territory, parasitic fauna, and home-range use, which can be applied for conservation projects and support paleoecological research that use coprolites as the main source of study. Although the new biotechnological techniques allow more accurate data, the diagnosis based on morphometric analyses permits the primary identification of the taxonomic group origin to support the best choice of subsequent analyses. We present the compilation list of fecal shape and measurements available in the literature published in North America, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, and new data from Brazil. Shape and diameters are the best characteristics for taxonomic identification. Feces were assembled in 9 groups that reflect the Order, sometimes the Family, and even their common origin.
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TL;DR: The cell parameters and the crystallite mean size behavior of both mineral phases reinforce the hypothesis that hydroxypyromorphite, PbHA, formation is the end of a process in which Pb(10-x)Ca(x)(PO4)6(OH)2 crystallites are continuously dissolved and recrystallized producing crystals with lower calcium content.
Abstract: The sorption of lead by synthetic hydroxyapatite (HA) from solutions containing Pb2+ initial concentrations up to 1770 mg L-1 was studied. X-ray diffractometry (XRD) associated with Rietveld methodology for refining the spectra pattern was used in order to characterize the mechanisms of lead uptake. It is shown that the dissolution of hydroxyapatite is followed by the formation of a solid solution, Pb(10-x)Cax(PO4)6(OH)2, with Pb ions mostly occupying Ca(II) sites. The Ca/Pb molar ratio of this solid solution decreases continuously until it reaches the structure of a pure hydroxypyromorphite. The cell parameters and the crystallite mean size behavior of both mineral phases reinforce the hypothesis that hydroxypyromorphite, PbHA, formation is the end of a process in which Pb(10-x)Cax(PO4)6(OH)2 crystallites are continuously dissolved and recrystallized producing crystals with lower calcium content. Combination of Inductively Coupled Plasma spectrometry (ICP), chemical analysis, and XRD results permitted th...
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TL;DR: An urgent need to manage the sustainability of game hunting in both protected and unprotected tropical forests, and place full biodiversity integrity, including populations of large frugivorous vertebrates, firmly in the agenda of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) programs is highlighted.
Abstract: Tropical forests are the global cornerstone of biological diversity, and store 55% of the forest carbon stock globally, yet sustained provisioning of these forest ecosystem services may be threatened by hunting-induced extinctions of plant-animal mutualisms that maintain long-term forest dynamics. Large-bodied Atelinae primates and tapirs in particular offer nonredundant seed-dispersal services for many large-seeded Neotropical tree species, which on average have higher wood density than smaller-seeded and wind-dispersed trees. We used field data and models to project the spatial impact of hunting on large primates by ∼ 1 million rural households throughout the Brazilian Amazon. We then used a unique baseline dataset on 2,345 1-ha tree plots arrayed across the Brazilian Amazon to model changes in aboveground forest biomass under different scenarios of hunting-induced large-bodied frugivore extirpation. We project that defaunation of the most harvest-sensitive species will lead to losses in aboveground biomass of between 2.5-5.8% on average, with some losses as high as 26.5-37.8%. These findings highlight an urgent need to manage the sustainability of game hunting in both protected and unprotected tropical forests, and place full biodiversity integrity, including populations of large frugivorous vertebrates, firmly in the agenda of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) programs.
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TL;DR: Data is summarized showing that thymus physiology is pleiotropically influenced by hormones and neuropeptides, which modulate the expression of major histocompatibility complex gene products by microenvironmental cells and the extracellular matrix-mediated interactions, leading to enhanced thymocyte adhesion to thymic epithelial cells.
Abstract: The thymus gland is a central lymphoid organ in which bone marrow-derived T cell precursors undergo differentiation, eventually leading to migration of positively selected thymocytes to the peripheral lymphoid organs. This differentiation occurs along with cell migration in the context of the thymic microenvironment, formed of epithelial cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, fibroblasts, and extracellular matrix components. Various interactions occurring between microenvironmental cells and differentiating thymocytes are under neuroendocrine control. In this review, we summarize data showing that thymus physiology is pleiotropically influenced by hormones and neuropeptides. These molecules modulate the expression of major histocompatibility complex gene products by microenvironmental cells and the extracellular matrix-mediated interactions, leading to enhanced thymocyte adhesion to thymic epithelial cells. Cytokine production and thymic endocrine function (herein exemplified by thymulin production) are als...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Douglas T. Golenbock | 123 | 317 | 61267 |
Guy A. Zimmerman | 109 | 328 | 39740 |
David Brown | 105 | 1257 | 46827 |
Liam Smeeth | 104 | 753 | 53433 |
Ann M. Dvorak | 99 | 437 | 41073 |
David C. Spray | 95 | 400 | 28732 |
Theodore A. Slotkin | 89 | 575 | 30070 |
Fernando Q. Cunha | 88 | 682 | 31501 |
Mauro M. Teixeira | 86 | 713 | 31301 |
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli | 86 | 340 | 28233 |
Peter F. Weller | 85 | 331 | 22005 |
João B. Calixto | 81 | 460 | 23029 |
Frederic J. Seidler | 80 | 372 | 19564 |
João Santana da Silva | 80 | 399 | 19060 |
Deborah Carvalho Malta | 77 | 706 | 61000 |