Wooden‐breast, white striping, and spaghetti meat: causes, consequences and consumer perception of emerging broiler meat abnormalities

M Petracci, F Soglia, M Madruga… - … Reviews in Food …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ten years ago, the occurrence of macroscopic defects in breasts muscles from fast‐growing
broilers challenged producers and animal scientists to label and characterize myopathies …

[HTML][HTML] A critical review of the mechanisms involved in the occurrence of growth-related abnormalities affecting broiler chicken breast muscles

F Soglia, M Petracci, R Davoli, M Zappaterra - Poultry Science, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past decade, the poultry industry has faced the occurrence of growth-related muscular
abnormalities that mainly affect, with a high incidence rate, the Pectoralis major of the fast …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the cause of white striping in broilers using metabolomics

G Boerboom, T van Kempen, A Navarro-Villa… - Poultry Science, 2018 - Elsevier
White striping (WS) is a major problem affecting the broiler industry. Fillets affected by this
myopathy present pathologies that compromise the quality of the meat, and most …

Genetic basis and identification of candidate genes for wooden breast and white striping in commercial broiler chickens

JA Lake, JCM Dekkers, B Abasht - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Wooden breast (WB) and white striping (WS) are highly prevalent and economically
damaging muscle disorders of modern commercial broiler chickens characterized …

Pectoral vessel density and early ultrastructural changes in broiler chicken wooden breast myopathy

HK Sihvo, N Airas, J Lindén, E Puolanne - Journal of Comparative …, 2018 - Elsevier
In wooden breast myopathy (WBM) of broiler chickens, the pectoralis major muscles show
abnormally hard consistency and microscopical myodegeneration of unknown aetiology. To …

Recent myopathies in broiler's breast meat fillets

S Barbut - World's poultry science journal, 2019 - cambridge.org
Incidences of myopathies such as white striping (WS), woody breast (WB) and spaghetti
meat (SP) in breast meat from young broilers have been observed globally over the past …

Gene expression profiling of the early pathogenesis of wooden breast disease in commercial broiler chickens using RNA-sequencing

MB Papah, EM Brannick, CJ Schmidt, B Abasht - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Wooden Breast Disease (WBD), a myopathy in commercial broiler chickens characterized
by abnormally firm consistency of the pectoral muscle, impacts the poultry industry …

Glucolipotoxicity: a proposed etiology for wooden breast and related myopathies in commercial broiler chickens

JA Lake, B Abasht - Frontiers in physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Wooden breast is one of several myopathies of fast-growing commercial broilers that has
emerged as a consequence of intensive selection practices in the poultry breeding industry …

[HTML][HTML] In pursuit of a better broiler: carcass traits and muscle myopathies in conventional and slower-growing strains of broiler chickens

MN Santos, D Rothschild, TM Widowski, S Barbut… - Poultry Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Selection for accelerated growth rate and high breast yield in broiler chickens have been
associated with an increase in myopathies, including wooden breast (WB) and white striping …

A review on the woody breast condition, detection methods, and product utilization in the contemporary poultry industry

JP Caldas-Cueva, CM Owens - Journal of Animal Science, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, the global poultry industry has been facing increasing and challenging
myopathies such as the woody breast (WB) condition that has caused significant economic …