Postprandial morphological response of the intestinal epithelium of the Burmese python (Python molurus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 280-291

  Lignot, Jean Hervé ^a   Helmstetter, Cécile ^a   Secor, Stephen M ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digestion; Microvilli; Morphology; Python molurus; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

ALIZARIN RED S; FAT DROPLET;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; DIGESTION; HYPERTROPHY; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMALL INTESTINE; SNAKE;

PYTHON MOLURUS; PYTHONIDAE;

EID: 23044459109     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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