Postprandial cardiac hypertrophy in pythons
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A study was conducted to investigate the nature of cardiac hypertrophy in pythons following feeding and ventricles from three groups of Burmese pythons were obtained. It was concluded that the newly synthesized protein results from the increased transcription of the gene encoding cardiac myosin heavy chains and that cardiac hypertrophy follows from de novo addition of contractile elements.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Taste alteration and endoparasites
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A demonstration in two species of caterpillar reveals that infection by lethal parasites alters the taste of specific phytochemicals for the larvae. Grammia geneura and Estigmene acrea from the field are collected to test how the response of their gustatory cells to these plant compounds to quantify the gustatory-cell responses and determine whether they are linked to parasitism.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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