Importance of Beef Tenderness Beef palatability is affected by many factors and tenderness is cited as one of the most important. Consumers are willing to pay a premium for a guaranteed tender product with the potential to increase the value of the middle meats over $60 per carcass (Miller et al., 2001). Consequently, the meat industry is in a continual search for methods to improve the tendern...

1. Department of Radiology Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey and 2. Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey Background: A-36-year-old man presented with a six-year history of Behçet’s disease and superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome. He said his symptoms related with Behçet disease (recurrent genital and oral ulcers, joint tend...

Diagnosing acute pyelonephritis relies on the combination of historical, physical, and laboratory findings. Costovertebral angle tenderness is important, although its accuracy is unknown. Point-of-care ultrasound-guided palpation (sonopalpation) may aid clinicians in localizing pain to discrete anatomic structures in cases of suspected acute pyelonephritis lacking classic features. We describe ...

Four distinct early-postmortem cooling rates (as measured within the longissimus muscle) were obtained by exposing one side of each of five fat and five lean steers to moving air at -2° and the other to 9° static air. Loin steaks of the fastest cooling group were found to be the least tender and to have the shortest sarcomeres; the three remaining groups differed significantly from each other i...