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An early-postmortem metabolic comparison among three extreme acute heat stress temperature settings in chicken breast muscle

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Normally, preslaughter acute heat stress could accelerate postmortem glycolysis and impair chicken breast (pectoralis major muscle) quality. However, previous studies indicated that it might be different when the acute heat stress temperature rises to an extreme range (above 35 °C). Therefore, this study’s objectives were to compare the pH decline, glycolytic enzyme activity, and AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) phosphorylation at early postmortem among three extreme acute heat stress temperature settings: a control group (36 °C) and two experimental groups (38 °C and 40 °C). Although the temperature did not affect glycogen phosphorylase a and pyruvate kinase activity, there was a decrease in pH decline rate, phosphofructokinase-1 activity, and phospho-AMPK-α[Thr172] within 4 h postmortem when temperature increased from 36 to 40 °C. Temperature also affected hexokinase activity, with the 36 °C-group having the highest activity. The results of the current study, for the first time, indicated that postmortem metabolic rate in chicken breast muscle could be changed by acute heat stress temperature setting at extreme range.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge Min Liu and Yuying Yang for helping the experiment.

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31401518).

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  1. Mingyue Zhang and Chaoyu Zhai have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Laboratory of Meat Processing and Quality Control, College of Food Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, 61, Daizong Str, Tai’an, 271018, Shandong, China

    Mingyue Zhang, Chaoyu Zhai, Xin Luo, Minghao Zhang, Lixian Zhu & Rongrong Liang

  2. Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80521, USA

    Chaoyu Zhai & Mahesh N. Nair

  3. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Animal Science & Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, 271018, Shandong, China

    Hai Lin

  4. Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011-3150, USA

    Dong U. Ahn

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Conceptualization, Rongrong Liang; Methodology, Mingyue Zhang and Minghao Zhang; Formal Analysis, Mingyue Zhang; Investigation, Mingyue Zhang and Chaoyu Zhai; Resources, Hai Lin; Data Curation, Mingyue Zhang; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Mingyue Zhang and Chaoyu Zhai; Writing – Review & Editing, Xing Luo, Minghao Zhang, Lixian Zhu, Mahesh N. Nair, Dong U. Ahn, and Rongrong Liang; Visualization, Chaoyu Zhai; Supervision, Xin Luo; Project Administration, Rongrong Liang; Funding Acquisition, Rongrong Liang.

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Zhang, M., Zhai, C., Luo, X. et al. An early-postmortem metabolic comparison among three extreme acute heat stress temperature settings in chicken breast muscle. J Food Sci Technol 58, 4823–4829 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-021-05230-1

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