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MEAT SCIENCE
Volume 68, Issue 3, Pages 357-362Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2004.04.003
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L-carnitine; myoglobin; muscle fiber type
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We have adapted the enzymatic method [Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 176 (3) (1991) 1617] for the safe and rapid assay of L-carnitine (L-CA) in skeletal muscle using a microplate reader. The concentration of L-CA in fresh semitendinosus muscle from broiler chicken, pig, beef cattle, deer, horse and goat muscle were 0.69, 1.09, 1.86-3.57, 4.57, 4.95 and 11.36 mumol/g wet weight, respectively. The animals which had higher concentration of L-CA, also had the highest amounts of myoglobin as an index to the redness of the muscle. Furthermore, we investigated this relationship between white muscle, M. pectoralis profundus. and red muscle, M. soleus, in laying hens. The L-CA and myoglobin concentration in red muscle were significantly higher than those in white muscle (p < 0.01). These findings suggest that L-CA concentration in muscle is related to oxygen metabolism and to myofiber types. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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