Figure 6.

Effects of wooden breast severity on protein denaturation indicated by intrinsic fluorescence of sarcoplasmic proteins (a) and surface hydrophobicity of myofibrils (b) in the superficial and deep part of pectoralis major muscle. The tryptophan maximum fluorescence intensity (FI_max) is summarized in the table embedded in Figure 6a. SEM: standard error of mean. Means with standard errors (n = 10) are shown in Figure 6b. BPB: bromophenol blue. a–e: within each indicator, mean values with the same letter do not differ (p > 0.05).