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Ricardo R. Brentani

Ricardo R. Brentani

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
14037
World Ranking
11880
National Ranking
218

Overview

Ricardo R. Brentani was affiliated with Ludwig Cancer Research in Belgium during their research career. Their academic work spanned multiple fields and subfields, with an emphasis on Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Key subfields included Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Molecular Biology.

Their research covered a variety of topics, notably Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Family and Disability Support Research, and Birth, Development, and Health.

Throughout their career, they published in several frequent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Neuropsychopharmacology, Scientific Reports, Research Square, and Translational Psychiatry.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Ricardo R. Brentani included:

  • Computer-aided autism diagnosis based on visual attention models using eye tracking (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Genome-wide association study of pediatric obsessive-compulsive traits: shared genetic risk between traits and disorder (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Drug repositioning for psychiatric and neurological disorders through a network medicine approach (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • ADHD and autism symptoms in youth: a network analysis (2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • Genome-wide association study identifies new locus associated with OCD (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

Frequent collaborators of Brentani included Guilherme V. Polanczyk, Eurípedes Constantino Miguel, Verônica Euclydes, Joana Portolese, and Gisele Rodrigues Gouveia.

Best Publications

  • Physiology of the Prion Protein

    Rafael Linden;Vilma R. Martins;Marco A. M. Prado;Martín Cammarota

  • Stress-inducible protein 1 is a cell surface ligand for cellular prion that triggers neuroprotection

    Silvio M. Zanata;Marilene H. Lopes;Adriana F. Mercadante;Glaucia N. M. Hajj

  • Pericyte Depletion Results in Hypoxia-Associated Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Metastasis Mediated by Met Signaling Pathway

    Vesselina G. Cooke;Valerie S. LeBleu;Doruk Keskin;Zainab Khan

  • Cellular prion protein transduces neuroprotective signals

    Luciana B. Chiarini;Adriana R. O. Freitas;Silvio M. Zanata;Ricardo R. Brentani

  • Cellular prion protein binds laminin and mediates neuritogenesis

    Edgard Graner;Adriana F Mercadante;Silvio M Zanata;Orestes V Forlenza

  • Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags

    Emmanuel Dias Neto;Ricardo Garcia Correa;Sergio Verjovski-Almeida;Marcelo R.S. Briones

  • VEGF-A and Tenascin-C produced by S100A4+ stromal cells are important for metastatic colonization

    Joyce T. O'Connell;Hikaru Sugimoto;Vesselina G. Cooke;Brian A. MacDonald

  • Interaction of cellular prion and stress-inducible protein 1 promotes neuritogenesis and neuroprotection by distinct signaling pathways.

    Marilene H. Lopes;Glaucia N. M. Hajj;Angelita G. Muras;Gabriel L. Mancini

  • PRUNE2 is a human prostate cancer suppressor regulated by the intronic long noncoding RNA PCA3

    Ahmad Salameh;Alessandro K. Lee;Marina Cardó-Vila;Diana N. Nunes

  • DNA Converts Cellular Prion Protein into the β-Sheet Conformation and Inhibits Prion Peptide Aggregation

    Yraima Cordeiro;Filipe Machado;Luiz Juliano;Maria Aparecida Juliano

  • Increased sensitivity to seizures in mice lacking cellular prion protein.

    Roger Walz;Olavo B. Amaral;Isabel C. Rockenbach;Rafael Roesler

  • Complementary hydropathy identifies a cellular prion protein receptor.

    Vilma R. Martins;Edgard Graner;José Garcia-Abreu;Sandro J. De Souza;Sandro J. De Souza

  • Identification of enolase as a laminin-binding protein on the surface of Staphylococcus aureus.

    Celia R.W. Carneiro;Edilberto Postol;Regina Nomizo;Luiz F.L. Reis

  • Detection and characterization of metalloproteinases with gelatinolytic, fibronectinolytic and fibrinogenolytic activities in Brown spider (Loxosceles intermedia) venom

    Loara Feitosa;Waldemiro Gremski;Waldemiro Gremski;Silvio S Veiga;Silvio S Veiga;M.Carolina Q.B Elias

  • Results of a prospective trial on elective modified radical classical versus supraomohyoid neck dissection in the management of oral squamous carcinoma

    Ricardo R. Brentani;Luiz P. Kowalski;José F. Soares;Humberto Torloni

  • Detailed haplotype analysis at the TP53 locus in p.R337H mutation carriers in the population of Southern Brazil: evidence for a founder effect.

    Sonia Garritano;Federica Gemignani;Edenir Inez Palmero;Magali Olivier

  • The contribution of 700,000 ORF sequence tags to the definition of the human transcriptome

    Anamaria A. Camargo;Helena P. B. Samaia;Emmanuel Dias-Neto;Daniel F. Simão

  • Endocytic intermediates involved with the intracellular trafficking of a fluorescent cellular prion protein.

    Ana C. Magalhães;Juliana A. Silva;Kil S. Lee;Kil S. Lee;Vilma R. Martins

  • Laminin‐induced PC‐12 cell differentiation is inhibited following laser inactivation of cellular prion protein

    Edgard Graner;Adriana F. Mercadante;Adriana F. Mercadante;Sı́lvio M. Zanata;Sı́lvio M. Zanata;Vilma R. Martins

  • End results of a prospective trial on elective lateral neck dissection vs type III modified radical neck dissection in the management of supraglottic and transglottic carcinomas

    Ricardo R. Brentani;Luiz P. Kowalski;José F. Soares;Humberto Torloni

Frequent Co-Authors

Vilma R. Martins
Vilma R. Martins National Institute of Standards and Technology
Andrew J.G. Simpson
Andrew J.G. Simpson Ludwig Cancer Research
Dirce Maria Carraro
Dirce Maria Carraro AC Camargo Hospital
Roger Walz
Roger Walz Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Luiz Paulo Kowalski
Luiz Paulo Kowalski Universidade de São Paulo
Rafael Roesler
Rafael Roesler Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Ivan Izquierdo
Ivan Izquierdo Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Américo Ceiki Sakamoto
Américo Ceiki Sakamoto Universidade de São Paulo
Wadih Arap
Wadih Arap Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sergio Verjovski-Almeida
Sergio Verjovski-Almeida Universidade de São Paulo

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