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ulate glucose transport in exercising muscle. capitalized on to improve meat quality. It is
H2O2 is increased after exercise, and thus oxi- reasonable to hypothesize that differences in
dation systems may play a role in signaling the antioxidant defense system between
in skeletal muscle (Balon and Yerneni 2001). animals and/or muscles would influence
Alterations in glucose metabolism in the calpain activity, proteolysis, and thus
ante- and perimortem time period do have the tenderization.
potential to cause changes in postmortem Exposure to oxidizing conditions (H2O2)
muscle metabolism and thus represent an under postmortem-like conditions inhibits
important avenue of future research. calpain activity (Carlin et al. 2006). In a
In postmortem muscle, these redox series of in vitro assays using either a fluo-
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