Observation of Characteristic Muscle Structure Related to Delay in Red Sea-Bream Rigor Mortis by Spinal Cord Destruction

Fisheries Science

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 977-984

  Nakayama, Teruo ^a   Goto, Eiichiro ^a   Ooi, Atsushi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breaking strength; Muscle pH; Postmortem muscle microstructure; Rigor tension; Spinal cord destruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001072034     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.62.977     Document Type: Article

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