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Sarcomere lengths in wooden breast broiler chickens
- Source :
- Italian Journal of Animal Science, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 569-573 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Abstract
- The present study aims to measure the sarcomere lengths in normal broiler muscles and in non-lesion sites of breast muscles focally affected by Wooden Breast (WB). For this purpose, twenty Pectoralis major muscles (10 unaffected and 10 WB-focally affected cases) were sampled and used to measure sarcomere length by laser diffraction method. When compared with their unaffected counterpart, WB cases exhibited 13% longer sarcomeres (1.91 vs. 1.69 μm; p
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15944077 and 1828051X
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Italian Journal of Animal Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.352b67ba9c0a4db49686b566fc942ed9
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2020.1761271