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ReviewFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Understanding the Determination of Meat Quality Using Biochemical Characteristics of the Muscle: Stress at Slaughter and Other Missing Keys.

E M Claudia Terlouw, Brigitte Picard, Véronique Deiss, Cécile Berri, Jean-François Hocquette, Bénédicte Lebret, Florence Lefèvre, Ruth Hamill, Mohammed Gagaoua

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Review in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

E M Claudia TerlouwUMR Herbivores, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Theix, 63122 Saint-Genès Champanelle, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8249-1100
Brigitte PicardUMR Herbivores, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Theix, 63122 Saint-Genès Champanelle, France.
Véronique DeissUMR Herbivores, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Theix, 63122 Saint-Genès Champanelle, France.
Cécile BerriUMR Biologie des Oiseaux et Aviculture, INRAE, University de Tours, 37380 Nouzilly, France.
Jean-François HocquetteUMR Herbivores, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Theix, 63122 Saint-Genès Champanelle, France.
Bénédicte LebretUMR Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Élevage, INRAE, AgroCampus Ouest, 35590 Saint-Gilles, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5435-0389
Florence LefèvreLaboratoire de Physiologie et Génomique des Poissons, INRAE, 35042 Rennes, France.
Ruth HamillTeagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre, Food Quality and Sensory Science Department, Ashtown, Dublin 15, Ireland.
Mohammed GagaouaTeagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre, Food Quality and Sensory Science Department, Ashtown, Dublin 15, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-6913-3379

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite increasingly detailed knowledge of the biochemical processes involved in the determination of meat quality traits, robust models, using biochemical characteristics of the muscle to predict future meat quality, lack. The neglecting of various aspects of the model paradigm may explain this. First, preslaughter stress has a major impact on meat quality and varies according to slaughter context and individuals. Yet, it is rarely taken into account in meat quality models. Second, phenotypic similarity does not imply similarity in the underlying biological causes, and several models may be needed to explain a given phenotype. Finally, the implications of the complexity of biological systems are discussed: a homeostatic equilibrium can be reached in countless ways, involving thousands of interacting processes and molecules at different levels of the organism, changing over time and differing between animals. Consequently, even a robust model may explain a significant part, but not all of the variability between individuals.

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behaviorbiochemistrymeat qualitymodelingphysiologypostmortem muscle metabolismproteomicsslaughterstress

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PMID33406632
PMCPMC7823487

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