Specific fibre composition and metabolism of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">rectus abdominis</Emphasis> muscle of bovine Charolais cattle |
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Authors: | Marie-Pierre Oury Rollande Dumont Catherine Jurie Jean-François Hocquette Brigitte Picard |
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Institution: | 1.Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon (ENESAD),Dijon Cedex,France;2.Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Recherche sur les Herbivores UR 1213,St-Genès-Champanelle,France |
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Abstract: | Background An important variability of contractile and metabolic properties between muscles has been highlighted. In the literature,
the majority of studies on beef sensorial quality concerns M. longissimus thoracis. M. rectus abdominis (RA) is easy to sample without huge carcass depreciation and may appear as an alternative to M. longissimus thoracis for fast and routine physicochemical analysis. It was considered interesting to assess the muscle fibres of M. rectus abdominis in comparison with M. longissimus thoracis (LT) and M. triceps brachii (TB) on the basis of metabolic and contractile properties, area and myosin heavy chain isoforms (MyHC) proportions. Immuno-histochemical,
histochemical, histological and enzymological techniques were used. This research concerned two populations of Charolais cattle:
RA was compared to TB in a population of 19 steers while RA was compared to LT in a population of 153 heifers. |
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