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So Leinwand's team - led by a grad student who initially was fearful of snakes - ordered up some pythons and began testing their hearts. Surprise 1: A digesting python's blood gets so full of fat ...
The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the larger-than-normal hearts of Olympic-caliber athletes. Colorado researchers report they've figured out how the snakes make it happen.
Adult Burmese pythons can swallow prey as large as deer. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder say the way the python's heart balloons after it eats could help treat human ...
The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the larger-than-normal hearts of Olympic-caliber athletes. Colorado researchers report they’ve figured out how the snakes make it happen.
The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the larger-than-normal hearts of Olympic-caliber athletes. Colorado researchers report they've figured out how the snakes make it happen.
“Within 24 hours [after eating], the heart went much softer” compared to fasted snakes, Leinwand said. “At the same time, the heart is actually able to generate more force.” ...
According to the study, it only took 24 hours after eating a large meal for the python heart to become much less stiff. [Related: Stressed rattlesnakes just need a little help from their friends.] ...
Python blood may hold the road map to effective treatments for human heart disease, according to a new biomedical study by University of Colorado researchers. Researchers at CU’s Biofrontiers ...