Minced muscle grafts (MG) promote de novo muscle fiber regeneration and neuromuscular strength recovery in small and large animal models of volumetric muscle loss. The most noteworthy limitation of this approach is its reliance on a finite supply of donor tissue. To address this shortcoming, this study sought to evaluate micronized acellular urinary bladder matrix (UBM) as a scaffolding to prom...

In a previous publication it was shown that succinic acid is rapidly oxidized by homogenized suspensions of chick kidney (1). In view of the fact that succinic acid is an important intermediate in tissue oxidat.ions (2-4) it seemed desirable to study some of the properties of the succinoxidase system by means of the new technique. Quastel and Woolridge (5), using the methylene blue technique, s...

Yersinia enterocolitica is an important cause of acute gastrointestinal disease and post-infectious complications. In Germany, incidence of reported yersiniosis is relatively high compared with other countries of the European Union. Children aged <5 years are most frequently affected. The aim of our study was to identify risk factors for sporadic yersiniosis in Germany. A population-based case-...

BACKGROUND Volumetric muscle loss (VML) following extremity orthopaedic trauma or surgery results in chronic functional deficits and disability. A current translational approach to address the devastating functional limitations due to VML injury is the use of an autologous minced muscle graft (~1 mm3 pieces of muscle tissue) replacement into the injured defect area, although limitations related...

Rats were immunized ( 1 ) with Jensen rat sarcoma tissue; ( 2 ) with emulsions of normal rat spleen; ( 3 ) with normal rat blood. Sera from rats of these three series were tested against ( a ) cultures of Jensen rat sarcoma cells; ( b ) cultures of normal spleen cells; (c) cultures of mouse carcinoma 63; ( d ) cultures of cells of normal mouse spleen. Jensen Rat Sarcoma Tissue as Antigen: Two s...

Partial gastrectomy and intestinal resection significantly impaired glucose tolerance (p < 0.05) and significantly decreased the release of insulin by intravenous glucose (p < 0.05) or a meal of minced beef (p < 0.01). There was a significantly greater release of insulin one hour after oral glucose in the gastrectomy patients (p < 0.05).

introduction: surimi is one of the procedures that nowadays it is suggested to increase the consumption of fish such as silver carp (shabanpour et al., 2008). surimi is washed and minced fish meat myofibrillar concentration of proteins, this would wash out most of the soluble material in surimi (sultanbawa & li- chan, 1998). raw fish freshness and quality of the most important factors affecting...

The quantification of microorganisms present in food samples is an important step to assess the risk to consumers. The number of salmonellae in 20 positive samples of minced pork was determined by the Most Probable Number method. Counts ranging between <3 and 240 cfu.g were found in the analyzed samples.

We describe a simple method for stabilizing and extracting high-quality prokaryotic RNA from meat. Heat and salt stress of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. in minced meat reproducibly induced dnaK and otsB expression, respectively, as observed by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (>5-fold relative changes). Thus, the method is applicable in studies of bacterial gene expression in a mea...

Minced articular cartilage procedures are attractive surgical approaches for repairing articular cartilage, as they are 1-staged, autologous, and inserted on a carrier that can potentially be placed arthroscopically. The principle of mincing the autologous donor cartilage is to create a larger surface area for cartilage expansion. Placement on a scaffold carrier allows for a chondro-inductive a...