Article
Effect of freezing on calpastatin activity and tenderness of callipyge lamb.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jul 1998
Duckett S K, Klein T A, Leckie R K, Thorngate J H, Busboom J R, Snowder G D
Abstract excerpt
The longissimus muscles (LM) from 12 lambs (eight = callipyge [CLPG] and four = normal [NML]; 48 kg) were used to 1) assess the effect of freezing with or without prior immersion in liquid nitrogen on calpastatin activity (CA) and on Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBS) in CLPG, 2) determine the fre...
Topics
- Adult
- Animals
- Body Composition
- Calcium-Binding Proteins
- Consumer Behavior
- Freezing
- Frozen Foods
- Humans
- Male
- Meat
- Middle Aged
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Nitrogen
- Phenotype
- Postmortem Changes
- Random Allocation
- Sheep
- Taste