Twenty four male Thai native × Anglo-Nubian crossbred goats were randomly allocated to receive four treatments. The experiment was conducted for four months and slaughtered that the Longissimus dorsi muscle was collected for fatty acid analysis. The results conclude that either castrated method or ages had no significantly different on monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA) (P>0.05) except erucic ac...

Article history: Received 21 April 2008 Received in revised form 31 October 2008 Accepted 5 November 2008 Sixty crossbred (Iberian dam×Duroc sire) females, 80 days of age (17.6±0.13 kg body weight, BW), was used to investigate the effect of castration on productive performance, carcass and meat quality and fatty acid profile of backfat (BF). There were 2 treatments (intact females, IF; castrate...

Differences in producing performance and organoleptic meat characteristics among pig genotypes and/or types are widely known. These parameters also subjected to the animal’s development, feeding management. Detailed knowledge of effects production phase (PP), type (PT), dietary protein availability their interactions on nutrient digestibility, nitrogen balance metabolism is essential informatio...

Adipose tissue plays an important role in energy metabolism and related diseases. The content of intramuscular fat significantly influences the pork quality. In this study, the whole gene expression of dorsal subcutaneous (s.c.) adipose tissue and intramuscular (i.m.) adipose tissue isolated from longissimus dorsi muscle tissue were compared using Affymetrix Gene-Chip microarray technology. The...

In this study the potential of a pushbroom hyperspectral imaging system in the near-infrared (NIR) range (900-1700 nm) as a non-destructive technique was investigated for the detection of freshness in pork meat. Pork samples from the longissimus dorsi muscle of different quality grades were investigated. Each sample was imaged by the hyperspectral imaging system at 2 days post-mortem and then k...

The effects of origin, gender, age, and muscle type on chemical composition, colour, antioxidant status and sensory profile of reindeer muscles Longissimus dorsi (LD) and Semimembranosus (SM) from two production regions were investigated. For some variables, the comparison between reindeer and beef muscles was also included. Muscles from North Norway (NN) were darker and contained more myoglobi...

It is now well established that the effect of synthetic oestrogens (administered orally or implanted as pellets) in enhancing the rate of weight gain in cattle and sheep is associated with a decrease in the percentages of subcutaneous, perinephritic and intermuscular fat. There is a concomitant increase in the percentages of bone and edible meat, the latter having an apparently higher moisture ...

The effects of high pressure (to 600 MPa) at different temperatures (20 to 60 °C) for 20 min on protein solubilization and electrophoretic pattern in beef post-rigor longissimus dorsi muscle were studied. The results showed that protein solubilization increased with increasing temperature, especially from 40 °C to 60 °C. A regular trend of protein solubilization was found when isolated myofibri...

Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs) play a key role in modulating insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), and are considered candidate genes for growth traits in livestock. In this study, we identified the complete coding sequences of IGFBP-1 to -6 in the Nanjiang brown goat, and assessed gene tissue expression patterns by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Expression of mRNA ...

The present study was undertaken to determine the effects of exogenous porcine somatotropin (pST) on IGF-I gene expression in liver, skeletal muscle (longissimus dorsi), and s.c. adipose tissue of growing pigs. Twenty prepubertal gilts (approximately 60 kg BW) were allotted to four treatment groups (n = 5) and treated with either 0, 35, 70, or 140 micrograms/kg BW of recombinantly derived pST b...