Vitamin-mineral supplementation and accelerated chilling effects on quality of pork from pigs that are monomutant or noncarriers of the halothane gene

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2346-2355

  Kerth, C R ^a,d   Carr, M A ^a   Ramsey, C B ^a   Brooks, J C ^a   Johnson, R C ^b   Cannon, J E ^c   Miller, M F ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Triumph Pork Group LLC   (United States)

^c DEKALB Choice Genetics   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chilling; Exudative Meat; Halothane Susceptibility; Meat Quality; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; HALOTHANE; MINERAL; VITAMIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; COLOR; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; SWINE; TIME; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; COLD; COLOR; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; HALOTHANE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MEAT; MINERALS; MUSCLES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; VITAMIN E; VITAMINS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0035462975     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/2001.7992346x     Document Type: Article

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