Effect of dantrolene treatment on muscle metabolism and meat quality of anesthetized pigs of different halothane genotypes.

doi:10.2527/1994.7282008x

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Effect of dantrolene treatment on muscle metabolism and meat quality of anesthetized pigs of different halothane genotypes.

Journal of animal science - 1 Aug 1994

Klont R E, Lambooy E, van Logtestijn J G

Abstract excerpt

Muscle metabolism was studied in pigs of different halothane genotypes by taking blood and muscle biopsy samples during a 45-min preslaughter period of anesthesia. Dantrolene was administered to half the pigs of each genotype to investigate whether possible differences in muscle metabolism could...

Topics

Anesthesia
Animals
Biopsy, Needle
Calcium
Creatine
Dantrolene
Genotype
Glycogen
Halothane
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Lactates
Male
Malignant Hyperthermia
Meat
Muscle, Skeletal
Phosphocreatine
Stress, Physiological
Swine

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