proventricular
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Relating to the proventriculus
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Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.
Relating to the stage in the lifecycle of some parasites when they migrate to the proventriculus or midgut.
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In contrast to ALBA proteins that are RNA-binding proteins involved in parasite development in the tsetse fly, the signal was not reduced in proventricular stages [42 ].