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A PREVIOUS communication1 described the electron microscopic changes occurring in porcine muscle which had undergone an extremely rapid rate of post-mortem anaerobic glycolysis. At that time no evidence was found of the dense clumps across the muscle fibres which Bendall and Wismer-Pedersen2 postulated were denatured sarco-plasmic proteins resulting from rapid glycolysis at a high-temperature post-mortem. Since then we have observed a dense, irregularly banded substance in porcine muscle, but we have interpreted its occurrence in a different manner.
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Cassens, R. G., Briskey, E. J., and Hoekstra, W. G., Nature, 197, 1119 (1963).
Bendall, J. R., and Wismer-Pedersen, J., J. Food Sci., 27, 1 (1962).
Cheney, R. H., Anat. Rec., 73, 129 (1939).
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CASSENS, R., BRISKEY, E. & HOEKSTRA, W. Electron Microscopic Observations of a Dense, Irregularly Banded Material occurring in Some Porcine Muscle Fibres. Nature 198, 1004–1005 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981004a0
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