THE SISTERHOOD OF SPECIES.

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  • Author(s): Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Scientific American. Mar2023, Vol. 328 Issue 3, p50-57. 8p. 3 Color Photographs, 3 Cartoon or Caricatures.
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    • Subject Terms:
      SPECIES; PREECLAMPSIA; GIRAFFES; MEDICAL students; MICE; VETERINARY medicine; MEDICAL sciences; ANIMAL diseases
    • Abstract:
      PROJECTED ON THE MASSIVE SCREEN BEHIND ME ONSTAGE, A HERD OF GIRAFFES rushes across a sweep of savanna. Could giraffe FGFRL1 explain the longer-necked species' resistance to diseases associated with increased blood pressure? Despite having much higher blood pressure than a healthy human, the giraffe is able to maintain a large, fibrosis-free heart. This greater pressure on the heart is what we call blood pressure, and in a healthy giraffe, systolic blood pressure (the pressure when the heart is contracting) can exceed 250 millimeters of mercury (mm HG), compared with 120 mm HG or less for a healthy human. [Extracted from the article]
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