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 …

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 …

During the past few years, there has been an increasing prevalence of broiler breast muscle
abnormalities, such as white striping (WS) and wooden breast conditions. More recently, a …

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 …

Over the past several decades, as a result of the increasing growth rate and body size of
modern hybrid birds, poultry industry has been facing up the occurrence of many breast …

ABSTRACT Wooden Breast Disease (WBD), a myopathy that frequently affects modern
broiler chickens, is a disorder that has been associated with significant economic losses in …

In wooden breast myopathy (WBM) of broiler chickens, the pectoralis major muscles show
abnormally hard consistency and microscopical myodegeneration of unknown aetiology. To …

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 …

Spaghetti meat (SM) is a recent muscular abnormality that affects the Pectoralis major
muscle of fast-growing broilers. As the appellative suggests, this condition phenotypically …

The dramatic improvements in the growth rate and breast muscle size and yield in broilers
through the intensive genetic selection, and the improvement in nutrition and management …