A procedure is described for the preparation of chicken breast muscle mitochondria which
are capable of aerobic respiration or anaerobic lactate production utilizing any of several …

The addition of rat-liver mitochondria to rat-brain supernatant fraction depressed the
accumulation of lactic acid under aerobic conditions. Glucose utilization was also lowered …

Methods Preparation of Latapie Mime-The muscle was dissected out immediately after
death of the animal by decapitation, freed from fat and connective tissue, chilled on ice, and …

Metabolically active mitochondria were isolated from pigeon breast muscle in cold 0.45 M
sucrose with ATP, EDTA, and tris buffer at pH 7.4. Fresh mitochondria were analyzed for …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Materiat8 Apart from those specified below, organic acids,
amino acids and coenzymes used were supplied by Sigma Chemical Co., St Louis, Mo …

Mitochondrial pellets isolated in 0.25 M sucrose from pigeon breast muscle and washed
once contained 77±1.43 g water per 100 g pellet, 7.8±2.0 meq K and 4.29 meq Na per kg …

THE POSTMORTEM METABOLISM of glycogen to lactate (glycolysis) plays a leading role in
the conversion of muscle to meat and in meat quality. It has been intensively studied in the …

An improved procedure to isolate mitochondria from chick pectoralis muscle is described.
The muscle is digested with the proteinase Nagarse and homogenized using a Teflon …

OXYGEN uptake in excised postrigor muscle could result from tissue respiration, heme
pigment oxygenation, dissolution into tissue fluids of low oxygen tension, lipid oxidation …

One-day-old chickens were fed either a glucose control diet or diets in which all nonprotein
calories were provided by either soybean oil or soybean oil fatty acids. Since feeding these …