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Article: Low lysine treatment increases adipogenic potential of bovine intramuscular preadipocytes.(Report)
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- Asian - Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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INTRODUCTION
Understanding mechanisms regulating fat deposition and metabolism in beef cattle is important, since the dynamics of adipose physiology is directly associated with both the quality and value of the meat (Ritchie et al., 1993; Lee et al., 2000). Intramuscular adipocyte differentiation is thought to be related to the formation of marbling (Kawada et al., 1996). Adipocyte differentiation is the switching of undifferentiated fibroblast-like preadipocytes into mature round lipid-filled unilocular fat cells (Butterwith, 1994; Hausman and DiGirolamo, 2001). Appropriate environment, gene expression, interplay between several transcription factors and ...