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Cardiac implications of chicken wooden breast myopathy [PDF]

Frontiers in Physiology
IntroductionWooden breast disease is a myopathy of the skeletal muscle in chickens of commercial breeding. Although the underlying pathophysiology remains unknown, we and others have previously shown that affected broilers display varying degrees of ...
Thea Parsberg Støle, Andreas Romaine, Thea Kleiberg, Vibeke Høst, Marianne Lunde, Almira Hasic, Tiril Aurora Lintvedt, Karen Wahlstrøm Sanden, Svein O. Kolset, Jens Petter Wold, Addolorata Pisconti, Sissel Beate Rønning, Cathrine Rein Carlson, Mona Elisabeth Pedersen   +13 more
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Ultrasonic-Assisted tumbling improves water retention and tenderness of wooden breast chicken meat [PDF]

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
Wooden breast myopathy results in reduced meat tenderness, poor water retention, and diminished processing value, underscoring the urgency to mitigate economic losses caused by the deteriorated quality of wooden chicken breast.
Yanyan Lu, Zhenyang Wu, Tianjiao Bian, Xue Zhao   +3 more
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Polyphenol blend enhances zootechnical performance, improves meat quality, and reduces the severity of wooden breast in broiler chickens [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
This study investigated the effects of a commercial polyphenol blend on broiler performance, meat quality, carcass traits, and the incidence of pectoral myopathies. Broilers (1–42 days old) were allocated to four treatments: T1 (control, basal diet), T2 (
Vivian Aparecida Rios de Castilho Heiss, Maria Fernanda de Castro Burbarelli, Bruna Barreto Przybulinski, Letícia Cuer Garcia, João Ricardo Rodrigues Ferreira Vieira, Rodrigo Garófallo Garcia, Fabiana Ribeiro Caldara, Elizabeth Santin, Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso, Claudia Marie Komiyama   +9 more
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Effects of Wooden Breast Syndrome in Broiler Chicken on Sarcoplasmic, Myofibrillar, and Connective Tissue Proteins and Their Association with Muscle Fiber Area [PDF]

Foods, 2023
This study was conducted on chicken pectoralis major muscle with different wooden breast severity in combination with different sampling locations to investigate the effects of wooden breast syndrome on protein traits and total myofiber area, and their ...
Binbin Li, Jere Lindén, Eero Puolanne, Per Ertbjerg   +3 more
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Relationship between wooden breast severity in broiler chicken, antioxidant enzyme activity and markers of energy metabolism [PDF]

Poultry Science
: This study aims to provide new insight on the association between the development of wooden breast myopathy and mitochondrial and glycolytic activity under oxidative stress.
Binbin Li, Niina Kalmu, Xinyue Dong, Yuemei Zhang, Eero Puolanne, Per Ertbjerg   +5 more
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Effect of freezing on the quality of breast meat from broilers affected by wooden breast myopathy [PDF]

Poultry Science, 2023
: The objective of the present study was to characterize possible variations in the quality of wooden chicken breast meat during freezing for 12 mo, in order to prove whether the shelf life recommended by the industry allows the storage of that type of ...
Erick Alonso Villegas-Cayllahua, Juliana Lolli Malagoli de Mello, Daniel Rodrigues Dutra, Rodrigo Fortunato de Oliveira, ÉrikaNayara Freire Cavalcanti, Mateus Roberto Pereira, Fábio Borba Ferrari, Rodrigo Alves de Souza, Nívea Maria Gomes Misson Carneiro, Heloísa de Almeida Fidelis, Aline Giampietro-Ganeco, Pedro Alves de Souza, Hirasilva Borba   +12 more
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Characterization of wooden breast myopathy: a focus on syndecans and ECM remodeling [PDF]

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
Introduction: The skeletal muscle deformity of commercial chickens (Gallus gallus), known as the wooden breast (WB), is associated with fibrotic myopathy of unknown etiology.
Lucie Pejšková, Sissel Beate Rønning, Matthew Peter Kent, Nina Therese Solberg, Vibeke Høst, To Thu-Hien, Jens Petter Wold, Marianne Lunde, Ellen Mosleth, Addolorata Pisconti, Svein Olav Kolset, Cathrine Rein Carlson, Mona Elisabeth Pedersen   +12 more
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Effects of Wooden Breast Myopathy on Meat Quality Characteristics of Broiler Pectoralis Major Muscle and Its Changes with Intramuscular Connective Tissue [PDF]

Foods
This study aimed to investigate the effect of wooden breast (WB) myopathy on chemical composition, meat quality attributes and physiochemical characteristics of intramuscular connective tissue (IMCT) of broiler pectoralis major (PM) muscle.
Tianjiao Bian, Tong Xing, Xue Zhao, Xinglian Xu   +3 more
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Gene coexpression network analysis reveals the genes and pathways in pectoralis major muscle and liver associated with wooden breast in broilers [PDF]

Poultry Science
: Wooden breast (WB) is a myopathy mainly affecting pectoralis major (PM) muscle in modern commercial broiler chickens, causing enormous economic losses in the poultry industry.
Jun Lu, Hui Yuan, Shengnan Liu, Yuan Liu, Ziwen Qin, Wenpeng Han, Runxiang Zhang   +6 more
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Identification of circulating metabolites associated with wooden breast and white striping [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
Current diagnostic methods for wooden breast and white striping, common breast muscle myopathies of modern commercial broiler chickens, rely on subjective examinations of the pectoralis major muscle, time-consuming microscopy, or expensive imaging ...
Juniper A. Lake, Yiren Yan, Jack C. M. Dekkers, Jing Qiu, Erin M. Brannick, Behnam Abasht   +5 more
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