Meat science and muscle Biology Symposium: Manipulating mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation to optimize performance and carcass value of beef cattle

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1419-1427

  Du, M ^a,b   Huang, Y ^b   Das, A K ^a,b   Yang, Q ^a   Duarte, M S ^a   Dodson, M V ^a   Zhu, M J ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipogenesis; Beef; Fibrogenesis; Marbling; Myogenesis; Progenitor cells

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELL; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 84882606807     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: 15253163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2012-5670     Document Type: Article

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