The optimisation of poultry meat quality attributes at the industrial level requires getting to know changing customer needs and expectations justify further measures taken in future improve production process. This article was aimed following: (1) identify assess consumer behaviour relation criteria for offered on market Poland, (2) significance sensory characteristics meat, mainly variegated ...

Using carbon dioxide (CO2) for stunning pigs at slaughter is common in Europe. The use of group a major advantage with CO2, which done without restraining the and minimized human contact. However, high concentrations CO2 have been known decades to cause pain, fear distress before loss consciousness, method clearly associated animal welfare concerns. This study reviewed scientific literature fin...

RATIONALE During reperfusion of ischemic myocardium, a burst of hydroxyl radicals (OH) induces contractile dysfunction ("myocardial stunning"), and OH in the plasma of patients after myocardial infarction predict the development of heart failure. The effects of OH on myocardial function in patients with heart failure; however, have never been assessed. Furthermore, although ATP-dependent K+ cha...

The Council Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2009 requires slaughterhouse managers to implement specific standard operating procedures for all pre-slaughter stages considered at risk, aimed at achieving adequate levels of animal welfare. This survey was aimed at testing the applicability to an abattoir for heavy pigs of an assessment system of animal welfare through animal-based measures. In the monito...

Postconditioning, i.e., brief intermittent episodes of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion performed at the onset of reperfusion, reduces infarct size after prolonged ischemia. Our goal was to determine whether postconditioning is protective against myocardial stunning. Accordingly, conscious chronically instrumented dogs (sonomicrometry, coronary balloon occluder) were subjected to a control seque...

(131)I radiation therapy of differentiated thyroid cancer may be compromised by thyroid stunning (i.e., a paradoxical inhibition of radioiodine uptake caused by radiation from a pretherapeutic diagnostic examination). The stunning mechanism is yet uncharacterized at the molecular level. We therefore investigated whether the expression of the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) gene is changed by irra...

UNLABELLED Chronic ingestion of small doses of ethanol protects the myocardium from ischemic damage. It was demonstrated that short-term administration of ethanol (SAE) enhances the recovery of stunned myocardium in acutely instrumented, anesthetized dogs. It is unclear whether this beneficial effect of SAE also occurs in awake dogs. Therefore, we investigated the effects of SAE on regional myo...

Conscious rabbits underwent six 4-min occlusion and 4-min reperfusion cycles for 3 consecutive days (day 1, 2, and 3); on day 1, rabbits received intravenous vehicle [preconditioning (PC)] (group I, n = 6), superoxide dismutase (SOD; group II, n = 5), catalase (group III, n = 6), or the hydroxyl radical (. OH) and peroxynitrite (ONOO-)) scavenger N-2-mercaptopropionyl glycine (MPG [group IV], n...

Intracellular calcium ([Formula: see text]) and left ventricular (LV) function were determined in the coronary-perfused mouse heart to study[Formula: see text]-related mechanisms of injury from myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. Specifics for loading of the photoprotein aequorin into isovolumically contracting mouse hearts under constant-flow conditions are provided. The method allows detecti...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the effect of endocardial and transthoracic direct current (DC) shocks on left atrial and left atrial appendage function in humans with structural heart disease. BACKGROUND DC cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (AF) to sinus rhythm is associated with transient left atrial and left atrial appendage dysfunction and the development of spontaneous echo contrast (S...