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Cone snails
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carrylex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mtpender@piefed.social 2 months ago
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Redacted@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Hunting via diabetic coma is crazy work
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s got nothing to do with insulin or glucose levels, though. It blocks either sodium or potassium channels, can’t remember off the dome. Temporarily ruins the electrical conductivity of nerves.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Cone snails flood the water around them with weaponized insulin causing hypoglycemic shock, which i called a diabetic coma for comedic effect. So im pretty sure youre wrong here bud.
But dont argue with me, argue with yeung et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50470-2