After the feedlot period, animals were slaughtered at a commercial slaughterhouse, carcass characteristics were evaluated, and LM samples were collected for further analyses of meat quality and fatty acid profile.
Meat characteristics of both LM and SM were measured for all Erhualian individuals, but for DLY individuals, only LM tissue samples were collected from carcasses due to the high cost of sampling.
Five millilitres from the top of the gradient were collected as the light membrane fraction (LM).
Information on Lm infections was collected by contacting infectious disease specialists in each of the 19 larger hospitals.
Surface EMG activity was collected from lumbar multifidus (LM), erector spinae (ES), internal oblique (IO), external oblique (EO) and rectus abdominis (RA) during overground walking (OW) and exercise device (EX) conditions.
However, ER, LM and OM kept reviewing the data being collected daily together with the research assistants.
Data was collected by VD, AF, SZ, CF. SK and LM conducted mutational screening, analysis, and validation.
Two hours after LM ingestion, the test is stopped; if an infant has not passed any urine, the test is extended until urine is collected.
Following slaughter, carcass data was collected for hot carcass weight (HCW), dressing percent (DP), kidney, pelvic and heart fat (KPH), 12th rib backfat (BF), loin muscle (LM) area, marbling score (MS), and yield grade (YG).
Salivary samples are collected using oral swabs (Salimetrics LLC, Carlsbad, California); stool samples are collected into plain tubes without fixative, prior to ingestion of lactulose-mannitol (LM) solution, and urine is collected prior to and for 2 hours after administration of LM solution (see below).
