Ten years ago, the occurrence of macroscopic defects in breasts muscles from fast‐growing
broilers challenged producers and animal scientists to label and characterize myopathies …

Myopathies are gaining the attention of poultry meat producers globally. White Striping (WS)
is a condition characterized by the occurrence of white striations parallel to muscle fibers on …

White striping (WS) and woody breast (WB) are 2 poultry meat quality defects that affect the
acceptance of raw breast fillets as well as properties of cooked and further processed …

In the past few decades, a remarkable increase in the incidence of breast muscle
abnormalities termed as white-striping (WS) and wooden-breast (WB)(normally downgraded …

Environmental stressors can promote the vulnerability of animals to infections; it is therefore,
essential to understand how stressors affect the immune system, the adaptive capacity of …

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the prevalence and severity of white striping
(WS) and wooden breast (WB) in breast fillets from broilers fed diets with increasing …

The wooden breast (WB) myopathy is identified by the palpation of a rigid pectoralis major
(p. major) muscle and is characterized as a fibrotic, necrotic p. major disorder in broilers. The …

The main objective of this work was to develop a method for rapid and non-destructive
detection and grading of wooden breast (WB) syndrome in chicken breast fillets. Near …

ABSTRACT White Striping (WS) and Woody Breast (WB) are 2 conditions that adversely
affect consumer acceptance as well as quality of poultry meat and meat products. Both WS …

The broiler industry has incurred significant economic losses due to two muscle myopathies,
white striping (WS) and wooden breast (WB), affecting the Pectoralis major (P. major) of …