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Comparison of immunochemical and histochemical analysis of fibre type distribution in ovine skeletal muscles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2017
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The characterisation of muscle fibres has become increasingly important as the proportion of slow and fast fibre types are known to influence the biochemical and physiological properties of muscle during postmortem tenderisation (Ouali and Talmant, 1990). Current histochemical methods are labour intensive, time consuming and hazardous, requiring rapid freezing of samples in isopentane cooled in liquid nitrogen. The purpose of this study was to investigate an alternative immunochemical approach for identifying fibre types by examining the expression of slow myosin heavy chain (MHC-s) and fast myosin heavy chain (MHC-f) and comparing the data with classical histochemical techniques. Five different ovine skeletal muscles with known differences in fibre types distribution were studied.
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