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Like many other sit-and-wait foraging snakes, ball pythons Python regius show a marked postprandial upregulation of metabolic rate, digestive functions and size of organs of the gastrointestinal tract. Starck and Wimmer (pp. 881-889) used Doppler ultrasound imaging to measure blood flow volume from the aorta to the gut and from the gut to the liver. Blood flow to and from the gut increased after the meal, accounting for half the organ size increase. The rest of the increase in organ size was caused by lipid droplets incorporated into cells of the mucosal epithelium and the liver.
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