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Snakes' Feat May Inspire Heart Drugs
The Article
This article discusses an amazing break through for the human heart.
A python has an extraordinary system. The python's internal organs double in size in a day. That means the python's metabolic rate and production of insulin and lipid go crazy. This happens after it swallows it's prey. Everything goes back to normal in a few days. This can help the human health when it comes to heart failure. The scientist say that a python expands its heart by enlarging existing cells with out creating new ones. This is called hypertrophy. Three fatty acids produce the enlargement of the organs. When injecting a mouse with the three fatty acids it produces the similar growth. The researchers say that this could help develop a way of delaying, preventing, treating, and reverse lots of hereditary and acquiring human diseases. Similar methods have been used in other medicines. Therefore, scientist have many hopes in these fatty acids to help the human health.
This article discusses an amazing break through for the human heart.
A python has an extraordinary system. The python's internal organs double in size in a day. That means the python's metabolic rate and production of insulin and lipid go crazy. This happens after it swallows it's prey. Everything goes back to normal in a few days. This can help the human health when it comes to heart failure. The scientist say that a python expands its heart by enlarging existing cells with out creating new ones. This is called hypertrophy. Three fatty acids produce the enlargement of the organs. When injecting a mouse with the three fatty acids it produces the similar growth. The researchers say that this could help develop a way of delaying, preventing, treating, and reverse lots of hereditary and acquiring human diseases. Similar methods have been used in other medicines. Therefore, scientist have many hopes in these fatty acids to help the human health.
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