more or less abdominal tenderness in spots. The fever, which often runs rather high and which may or may not be preceded by a rigor, generally lasts for some days, but gives way atonce to an efficient purgative, with or without a dose of quinine. The cases are epidemic, endemic or sporadic. The tongue is red, rather dry, with a high standing white or yellow fur, and sometimes with "strawberry" ...

Experimental methods were used to examine consumer willingness-to-pay for steak tenderness in a grocery store setting. When relying on a taste test alone to determine product quality, the participants paid an average premium of $1.23/lb for a tender versus tough steak. Fifty-one percent of the participants were willing to pay an average of $1.84/lb when they had completed a taste test and were ...

Consumers consider tenderness to be the single most important component of meat quality. Recently, it has finally become clear that a lack of consistency in meat tenderness is one of the main problems facing the meat industry (Morgan et al., 1991b; Smith, 1992). A West coast supermarket chain (annual beef sales of $130 million) requests that its customers return any meat purchased, if they are ...

background: women's role in family and their participation in social, economical and cultural activities make them a part of development process. paying attention to women's health is a social investment. nowadays 70% of women suffer from breast pain and two third of these pains are periodical. among the pain killing methods, herbal medicine is more compatible with human body and has fewer side...

the objective of the present study was to determine if modifications would occur due to epinephrine perfusion and simulating stressful situations (2 µg/ kg/ min, an animal)and transportation,causing change of the values of extractable protein concentrations, sds page profiles and the calpain calpastatin complex in silver rabbit longissimus muscles resulting in consequent changes in meat tendern...

background: meat products may be unacceptably tough because of the high connective tissue content of meats used in their manufacture. objective: the aim of this study was using meat acid marination method on some physicochemical and sensory characteristics of beef burgers. methods: meat was marinated in three concentrations (0.5%, 1% and 1.5%) of lactic and citric acid solutions (1:4 w/v) at 4 ...

In the present study, a national consumer evaluation was conducted for beef tenderness on USDA Select strip loin steaks of known Warner-Bratzler shear (WBS) force values, ranging from tough (> 5.7 kg) to tender (< 3.0 kg), and to assess the monetary value that consumers place on tenderness by determining the average price a consumer would pay for a steak in three tenderness categories. Three su...

Appendicitis, being one of the most common surgical problems, is often diagnosed clinically. The typical clinical sign elicited from a patient suffering acute or perforated appendicitis includes: Rebound tenderness, Rovsing sign, Obturator Psoas and tenderness over right iliac fossa. Cholecystitis, another problem, typically presents with hypochondrium, associated this condition positive Murphy...