Red and White Muscle

Effect of Heating Temperature and Muscle Type on Porcine Muscle Extracts as Determined by Reverse Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography

“…There was no significant muscle by age interaction effects. This was in agreement with the findings of Needham (1926), Ogata (1960), Beecher et al (1969) and Beatty and Bocek (1970).…”

“…"Fast" contracting muscles, high in white fiber and predisposed to anaerobic metabolism, contain a much higher proportion of water soluble proteins than "slow" contracting muscles. Myoglobin is an exception; its concentration is highly correlated with oxidative capacity and red fiber of muscles (Needham, 1926;Lawrie, 1952;Beecher et al, 1969;Beatty and Bocek, 1970).…”

Fiber Types in Mammalian Skeletal Muscles

“…However, it is during the last 40 years that the notion of muscle fiber type diversity has rapidly progressed leading to the identification of four major fiber types in adult mammalian skeletal muscles. Until around 1968 -1970, the common view of diversity in mammalian skeletal muscles was based on the old classification of fast-twitch muscles, characterized by glycolytic metabolism and specialized for phasic activity, generally identified with white muscles, and slow-twitch muscles, rich in myoglobin and oxidative enzymes and specialized for more continuous activity, also called red muscles (562). The mechanical and the biochemical approach found their meeting point in the relation between the actin-activated ATPase activity of myosin and the speed of muscle shortening which holds through the whole range of variations of different muscles and different species (47).…”

Propriétés des fibres musculaires squelettiques. 1. Influence de l'innervation motrice

“…A l'intérieur d'un même muscle, les fibres diffèrent entre elles par leur aspect morphologique (Grützner, 1884 ;Knoll, 1891 ) (Gauthier, 1970). Nous nous intéresserons dans ce chapitre à définir les propriétés des fibres qui ont permis de les classer : c'est-à-dire essentiellement les critères métaboliques et fonctionnels (Guth, 1972 (Needham, 1926). Les premiers travaux faisant intervenir des notions de biochimie métabolique montrè-rent que les muscles blancs, capables de contractions rapides et brèves, utilisent essentiellement la glycolyse pour couvrir leurs besoins énergétiques (Ogata, 1960 ;Beatty et al, 1963 ;Blanchaer et al, 1963 ;Bacou, 1972 ;Ansay, 1974 ; Lefaucheur et Vigneron, 1986) alors que les muscles rouges, qui peuvent se contracter pendant de longues périodes, puisent principalement leur énergie dans les mécanismes oxydatifs (Domonkos et Latzkovits, 1961 ;Bacou et Baldwin, 1979 (Essen et al, 1975;Spamer et Pette, 1977 ;Lowry et al, 1978 ;Lowry, 1984).…”