Respiration of Muscle Homogenates from Selected Lines of Chickens with Inherited Muscular Dystrophy

Research on Qualitative Genes of Poultry in the United States Part I

“…Hybrid turkeys having allele aAiD had longer shanks than those lacking this allele. Wilson and Stinnett (1968) measured the respiration of tissue slices and homogenates of embryo and chick pectoral muscles from two normal and three genetically dystrophic, am, lines of chickens. Respiration rates of pectoral muscle homogenates from one-to-threemonth-old chicks of the dystrophic lines were higher than those of controls.…”

Cholinesterase Activity and Inherited Muscular Dystrophy of the Chicken

“…information concerning the events ,associated with atrophy of the muscles (2,11,26,28) ; several lines of ations in the fibered muscles the disorder in 30). evidence suggest that alterdevelopment of the whiteare involved in the onset of the young chick (6,7,12,25, There have been few investigations into possible specific protein differences between normal and dystrophic tissues.…”

“…For example, phosphorylase activity decreases (7), and oxygen consumption (28) , thymidine kinase (2 5 ) , and deoxyribonuclease activity (26) increases in dystrophic as compared to normal pectoral muscle. Many differences in the metabolism of the muscles become apparent shortly after the chicks hatch.…”