The elusive hypertrophy of the python heart

B Jensen, T Wang - Physiology, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
… of those reporting postprandial growth of the python heart to cite the … postprandial size-change
of the python heart. After concluding that the postprandial hypertrophy of the python heart

Improved cardiac filling facilitates the postprandial elevation of stroke volume in Python regius

S Enok, GSPC Leite, CAC Leite… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
… there was no evidence that postprandialbut the postprandial hearts had higher activities
of cytochrome oxidase and pyruvate kinase, which probably serves to sustain the rise in cardiac

Effects of feeding and digestion on myocardial contractility and expression of calcium-handling proteins in Burmese pythons (Python molurus)

E da Silva Vasconcelos, AL Kalinin, RC Cipriano… - … Part B: Biochemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… The postprandial morphological and physiological changes in different organs have been …
demonstrated that postprandial pythons exhibited significantly higher cardiac contraction force …

Dynamic Physiological Remodeling in Post-Prandial Burmese Pythons

Y Tan - 2023 - search.proquest.com
post-prandial changes in metabolism and organ structure/… cardiac growth, we hypothesized
that Burmese pythons are … or maintenance of newly formed glucose as hepatic glycogen (…

Contractile function of fasting and digesting broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris)

AG Lopes, DA Monteiro… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
… Densitometric analysis also revealed that no significant changes were … did not change the
RVM of C. latirostris (Fig. 1). On the other hand, postprandial heart hypertrophy in pythons has …

Digestive physiology in reptiles with special reference to pythons

S Enok, LS Simonsen, P Funch, A Kruse… - Amphibian and …, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… in juvenile pythons showed that the trigger for postprandial … in postprandial metabolism does
not necessarily change. The … heart rate of fasted and fed snakes illustrate the postprandial

The physiological response to digestion in snakes: A feast for the integrative physiologist

T Wang, E Rindom - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A …, 2021 - Elsevier
… exhibit considerable changes in both form and function of the … fasted and postprandial (16–18
h post feeding) ball pythons (… , it can be shown that the postprandial rise in heart rate is due …

Diseases of the cardiovascular system

T Stephens, A Rosenwax - … Medicine and Surgery in Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… of snakes with cardiac disease is a swelling in the cranial portion of the body. Other general
causes of presentation are … the changes to skeletal muscle are obvious, the affected cardiac

Hyperpolarized 13C MRI Reveals Large Changes in Pyruvate Metabolism During Digestion in Snakes

K Hansen, ESS Hansen… - Magnetic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… During MRI the snakes were positioned in a spiral shape in … report statistically significant
postprandial changes in metabolism… studies, we show that the cardiac ventricle does not grow in …

In situ cardiac perfusion reveals interspecific variation of intraventricular flow separation in reptiles

W Joyce, M Axelsson, J Altimiras… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
… Thus, we refined the comparison between the two snakes in our study – pythons and anacondas
– by raising pulmonary and systemic afterloads in parallel to prevent the large shunts in …