There is a very common misperception among people, even among many snake hobbyists, that snakes must have live prey.
Explanation:
This is not usually true. In the wild, snakes, like most other carnivores, will usually take any opportunity to get a free and easy meal, and will not pass up a freshly killed prey animal if they happen upon it. In fact, snakes have been known to eat a fair amount of carrion which has been dead for some time, and the stomach contents of wild snakes often contain prey that must have been in an advanced state of decomposition when it was eaten. Thus, although your snake may prefer to eat live prey, which it kills itself through constriction, this is not at all necessary for the health of the snake. In fact, it is best not to feed your captive snakes live prey at all.
They replace the lost ions by active uptake through active transport
of ions from the surrounding waters. This is exhibited in freshwater fishes that
actively take in these ions through the gills. Most of the ions involved in osmoregulation in freshwater are those of Na+ and Cl-.
A polypeptide is a chain of amino acids. The completed polypeptide chains come together to form proteins, so be careful not to get them mixed up! Hope this helps!
Disruption in protein homeostasis leads to the appearance and accumulation of intermediate nonnative conformations that tend to form oligomeric and aggregated species, which over time cause cellular injury..
