Muscle development of livestock animals : physiology, genetics and meat quality /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Pas, M. F. W. te, Everts, M. E., Haagsman, H. P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K. ; Cambridge, Ma : CABI Pub., [2004]
Subjects:	Animals, Domestic > physiology. Muscles > physiology. Veterinary Medicine. Animals, Domestic > genetics. Meat.

Table of Contents:

Number and size of muscle fibres in relation to meat production
Fibre type identification and functional characterization in adult livestock animals
Manipulation of muscle fibre number during prenatal development
The effect of growth and exercise on muscle characteristics in relation to meat quality
Nutrition, hormone receptor expression and gene interactions : implications for development and disease
The impact of minerals and micronutrients on growth control
Na+, K+-ATPase in skeletal muscle : significance of exercise and thyroid hormones for development and performance
Local and systemic regulation of muscle growth
Proteolytic systems and the regulation of muscle remodelling and breakdown
The muscle regulatory factors gene family in relation to meat production
The muscle transcriptome
Genome analysis of QTL for muscle tissue development and meat quality
Functional genomics and proteomics in relation to muscle tissue
Role of myostatin in muscle growth
The Callipyge mutation for sheep muscle hypertrophy - genetics, physiology and meat quality
Genetic control of intramuscular fat accretion
Post-mortem muscle proteolysis and meat tenderness
Water-holding capacity of meat