This study documents the lifecycle and large-scale environment of a large-hail producing supercell that occurred in southern Brazil (SB) on 6 October 2015. The supercell underwent a merger with a nascent supercell near a Doppler weather radar and rapidly intensified shortly after the interaction. The original (premerger) supercell developed in a high-shear, high-instability pre-cyclogenesis environment and remained isolated un...

L-DOPA (LD) is the gold-standard treatment of motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD), conventionally used to prove the predictive value of PD animal models. This study aimed to investigate the predictive validity of an adaptation of the conventional reserpine model of PD: the repeated low-dose reserpine administration in rodents, which promotes progressive motor impairment in catalepsy, vacuous chewing behavior tests, and...

This study assessed the functional potential of autochthonous lactic acid bacteria isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of tambaqui ( Colossoma macropomum ) as larviculture probiotics. Five strains were selected and identified as belonging to the genus Weissella . In vitro assays revealed high tolerance to acidic pH (2.0–3.0), resistance to bile salts (10%), biofilm formation capacity, hydrophobicity and direct Aeromonas h...