Introduction and aim

Welcome to the homepage of the project “Cellular stress and metabolic responses to ante- and post-mortem stress factors elucidated in primary porcine muscle cell cultures using confocal microscopy and NMR-based metabolic profiling” (274-06-0107). The project is a 3-year project financed by The Danish Research Council FTP (Forskningsrådet for Teknologi og Produktion), and it is carried out by Department of Food Science, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

The overall aim of this project is to elucidate stress responses in primary porcine muscle cell cultures using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) techniques combined with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolic profiling in order to understand cellular responses to conditions analogue to the ante- and post mortem conditions. The combination of CLSM and NMR will enable an elucidation of both cellular stress response and the subsequent metabolic response, hereby providing a new strong tool in our understanding of ante- and post mortem processes determining meat quality development.

Project start: September 2006; project conclusion: August 2009.