ISSN:
1750-3841
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
The onset of rigor-mortis of plaice Puralichthys olivaceus spiked at the brain started much faster at 0°C than at 10°C. Correspondingly, ATP and creatine phosphate breakdown and lactic acid accumulation in the muscle were faster at 0°C. ATP concentration was constant at 5 μmol/g until creatine phosphate decreased from the initial conccntration at around 20 μmol/g to 5 μmol/g, irrespective of storage temperature. Simultaneously, lactic acid accumulated, slowly at first, until ATP concentration started decreasing, and then quickly accompanying the full-rigor state. Activities of the enzymes involved in ATP and creatine phosphate consumption-myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic AT-Pases and creatine kinase-were temperature-dependent, and decreased with decrease in temperature.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1988.tb07810.x
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