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Identification and mapping of real acupoints in the anatomical topography of Boa constrictor

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2018
Acupuncture is a therapy of the traditional Chinese medicine technique, which over the years has been widespread in the West. Defined as a needle-point treatment technique (acupoints), exactly preconfigured in the body to produce a specific physiological
T. M. Fernandes, F. C. Lopes, G. C. O. M. Santana, M. K. S. Oliveira, M. O. Freitas, C. I. A. Freitas   +5 more
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Boid Inclusion Body Disease Is Also a Disease of Wild Boa Constrictors

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), a potentially fatal disease, occurring in captive constrictor snakes boas and pythons worldwide. Classical BIBD, characterized by the formation of pathognomonic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (IBs),
Alejandro Alfaro-Alarcón, Udo Hetzel, Teemu Smura, Francesca Baggio, Juan Alberto Morales, Anja Kipar, Jussi Hepojoki   +6 more
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Drivers of tail evolution in squamates and their implications for the fossorial origin of snakes

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The axial skeleton serves as the primary structural support in all vertebrates and is subdivided into five distinct regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal. Relaxation of constraints acting on the terminal end of the axial skeleton has led to remarkable variation in caudal vertebrae number across Squamata.
Olivia Binfield, Marco Camaiti, Lucy Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Autoethnography, Teaching Autoethnography as a White Woman Architect‐Educator‐Researcher in South Africa

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This autoethnographic study lies at the intersection of architectural, teaching and research practice through the lens of an architect‐teacher‐researcher working in post‐Apartheid South Africa. The research traces a shift from unconscious design practice to a more conscious, critical and careful practice through practice‐based design research ...
Sandra Felix
wiley   +1 more source

First Record of Attempted Predation on the Scaled Dove (Columbina squammata) by the Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor) in a Restinga Habitat of Northeastern Brazil

Acta Herpetologica
We report the first documented case of attempted predation on the scaled dove (Columbina squammata) by the boa constrictor (Boa constrictor) in a restinga environment on the north coast of Paraíba, Brazil.
Letícia Nunes Rezende, Vanessa do Nascimento Barbosa, Élida Francisco da Silva, Mateus Lima Dutra, Jéssica Monique da Silva Amaral, Isis Chagas de Almeida, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França   +6 more
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Radiation and Intralesional Chemotherapy for a Fibrosarcoma in a Boa Constrictor, Boa constrictor ortoni [PDF]

Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery, 2001
ABSTRACT A 10-yr-old, female, boa constrictor, Boa constrictor ortoni, with a malignant subcutaneous fibrosarcoma of the body wall was treated with surgery and adjunctive radiation therapy. A total dose of 48 Gy was delivered in 16 equivalent 3 Gy fractions by a cobalt radiation unit over a 21 d period.
Jennifer N. Langan, William H. Adams, Steve Patton, Katie Lindermanri, Juergen Schumacher   +4 more
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Intranasal xylometazoline hydrochloride to reduce intraoperative nasal hemorrhage in dogs undergoing ala‐vestibuloplasty for BOAS: A prospective, randomized study

Veterinary Surgery, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To assess whether intranasal administration of xylometazoline hydrochloride 0.1% reduces intraoperative hemorrhage during ala‐vestibuloplasty in dogs undergoing surgical correction for brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome (BOAS). Study design Prospective, randomized, placebo‐controlled clinical trial.
Jun‐Yan Sek, Arthur House, Theophilus I. Emeto, Aaron Carl Chung Lau, Benjamin Mielke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meaning‐in‐Action: A Theory of Symbolic Causality

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Theories of social behaviour often acknowledge that action is meaningfully organised, but they remain less precise about how meanings become causally efficacious in practice. This article develops a critical realist account of meaning‐in‐action.
Matthew Coetzee
wiley   +1 more source

Consumption of an adult Puma yagouaroundi (Felidae) by the snake Boa constrictor (Boidae) in Central Mexico

, 2022
"Few felids have been recorded as being preyed upon by the boa constrictor snake (Boa constrictor). Documentation of predation on felids by reptiles is scarce, and natural predators of the adult jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi) are poorly known.
Monroy-Vilchis, Octavio, Urios, Vicente, Sánchez, Óscar   +2 more
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Helmintos parásitos de Boa constrictor (Serpentes: Boidae) en el sur de Quintana Roo, México

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2015
El presente estudio registra los helmintos parásitos de Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758 en el sur del estado deQuintana Roo, México. Se analizaron un total de 14 boas, recolectadas en 5 localidades, entre julio 2009 y septiembre2010.
David González-Solís, Francisco Josué Durán-Gorocica, José Rogelio Cedeño-Vázquez   +2 more
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