Liha töötlemine
Osmotic Pressure
the weakening of myofibrils (Takahashi et al.
1967; Hattori and Takahashi 1979) has been One of the most extensively investigated
related to the liberation of phospholipids factors during the development of rigor
from Z-disks (Ahn et al. 2003), and the frag- mortis is the postmortem fall in pH. The
mentation of cytoskeletal structure proteins intracellular osmotic pressure (i.e., ionic
titin (Tatsumi et al. 1999), nebulin (Tatsumi strength) increases nearly twofold and has a
and Takahashi 1992, 2003), and desmin close relationship with pH (r = 0.97) during
(Takahashi 1996) through direct binding the time course of rigor mortis (Ouali 1990),
reactions with free Ca2+. The second key yet it has received comparatively little atten-
element, weakening of rigor linkages, was tion in meat research studies. It was sug-
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