Starling law of the heart is explained by an intimate interaction of muscle length and myofilament calcium activation.
Today, some two hundred million starlings and a further one hundred and fifty million sparrows live there.
A 50 per cent reduction in loading would be achieved if sparrows were let in, but starlings kept out.
I have chosen to write about the sparrow because its expansion and impact provoked substantially more discussion among contemporaries than the starling's exploits (perhaps because they occurred first).
Starling's law of the heart states that the force of contraction of the cardiac muscle fibres is directly proportional to their initial resting length, or preload.
He always finds the starlings harvesting grapes.
I recently quoted the case of kids being used as scarecrows to chase away starlings from a rich farmer's cherry orchard.
One is more likely to find them strung out rather like a murmuring of starlings along the high street.
