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In a paper in the current issue of Science , they report that a gorging python expands its heart by enlarging existing cells — a process called hypertrophy — and not by creating new ones. (It is not known whether snakes get heart disease.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/h...se-for-human-heart-health.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/h...se-for-human-heart-health.html?pagewanted=all