Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the factors that influence muscle protein
metabolism in the growing organism. The “heritable/congenital” component, namely the …

From this presentation it emerges that there are several potentially important points of
control in muscle protein synthesis and its regulation is achieved through a variety of …

Muscle development of livestock animals: physiology, genetics and meat quality: Local and
systemic regulation of muscle growth. Page 1 8.1 Summary 157 8.2 Introduction 158 8.2.1 …

Skeletal muscle from domestic animals is a major source of high-quality protein in the
human diet. Past technological advances in production of animal muscle protein have been …

The growth of muscle involves increases in both cell number (hyperplasia) and cell size
(hypertrophy). Hyperplasia involves the mononucleate muscle precursor cells (myoblasts) …

Rapid and efficient deposition of muscle tissue is the primary goal of meat-animal
production. Because numerous events that occur during embryonic de-velopment influence …

Some aspects of muscle protein turnover in fowls and rats are reviewed, with the emphasis
on some of the authors' recent findings. Muscle tissue is the product of a process of …

This review of work in laboratory mammals and farm livestock considers (1) the structure of
genes encoding the constituents of muscles and factors affecting their expression,(2) …

The study tested the hypothesis that a higher rate of myofibrillar than sarcoplasmic protein
synthesis is responsible for the rapid postdifferentiation accumulation of myofibrils and that …

Introduction An understanding of the processes involved, and their regulation, in the
postnatal increase in muscle mass, with its associated accumulation of protein, is …