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tender meat. The first scientific reports junction of the I-band and Z-disk occur, (2)
looking at postmortem tenderization of meat Z- to Z-line attachments are disrupted by the
were those of Bouley (1874) and Lehman degradation of intermediate filaments, and
(1907), who reported that there was an (3) Z- and M-line attachments to the sarco-
increase in meat tenderness during extended lemma are disrupted. Ultimately, the ultra-
postmortem storage. Hoagland et al. (1917) structural changes that occur within muscle
provided indication of protein breakdown by during aging are thought to be the result of
showing that there was an increase in nonco- enzymatic degradation of myofibrillar and
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cytoskeletal proteins. Thus, the purpose of fied within the lysosome. On the other hand,