Dielectric spectroscopy and TD-NMR investigation for assessing water solid dynamics in normal and wooden breast chicken

[EN] Dielectric Spectroscopy (DS) and TimeDomain-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (TD-NMR) were exploited to investigate water and solid dynamics in chicken's Pectoralis major muscles having macroscopically normal appearance (N) and affected by Wooden Breasts (WB) abnormality. 147 PMM were collec...

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Autores: Soglia, Francesca, Iaccheri, Eleonora, Laghi, Luca, Ragni, Luigi, Petracci, Massimiliano, Fito, Pedro J.|||0000-0001-9666-276X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:riunet______::6e20d3f6e66c6d1c1d74cf3d5c665174
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/235321
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:NMR
Dielectric spectroscopy
Wooden breast chicken
Water mobility
Relaxation
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Sumario:[EN] Dielectric Spectroscopy (DS) and TimeDomain-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (TD-NMR) were exploited to investigate water and solid dynamics in chicken's Pectoralis major muscles having macroscopically normal appearance (N) and affected by Wooden Breasts (WB) abnormality. 147 PMM were collected and classified as macroscopically normal (N) (N=74) or Wooden Breast (WB) (N=73) based on their visual appearance and manual palpation. Protons¿ T2 (transverse relaxation time), and dielectric properties were carried out. The dielectric constant ( and the loss factor ( of ¿ relaxation of WB samples was significantly higher than the one of N samples ( 59.8 and 18.3), while the WB revealed a low relaxation frequency (1.5 E+09) compared to N samples (1.7 E+09). WB showed a higher dielectric constant of relaxation and thus polarizability mainly due to free water, and lower relaxation frequency imputable to a more complex solid structure. This was confirmed by TD-NMR, evidencing a significant increase in the relative intensity of the proton population ascribable to the extra-myofibrillar water (32.9 vs. 21.5%; P<0.001) along with a reduction of the one occupying the intra-myofibrillar spaces (62.0 vs. 75.4%; P<0.001). These outcomes may be ascribed to the re-organization of the skeletal muscle structure associated with the onset and progression of the WB abnormality.