Effects of meal size on postprandial responses in juvenile Burmese pythons (Python molurus)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 3 41-3, 1997, Pages

  Secor, Stephen M ^a   Diamond, Jared ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

blood chemistry; intestinal hypertrophy; intestinal nutrient transport; specific dynamic action

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; UREA;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE ADAPTATION; MEAL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE;

PYTHON MOLURUS;

EID: 0031003639     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.272.3.r902     Document Type: Article

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