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J. Anim Sci. 1985. 61:892-904.
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Fatty Acid Composition of Muscle and Adipose Tissue from Crossbred Bulls and Steers1

Jeffrey M. Eichhorn, Curtiss M. Bailey2 and Gary J. Blomquist3

University of Nevada-Reno 89557

Abstract

Fatty acid composition of total lipid extracts of muscle and adipose samples from crossbred bulls (N = 34) and steers (N = 35) was determined by gas-liquid chromatography. Samples of semitendinosus, triceps brachii and longissimus muscle and of subcutaneous and perinephric adipose tissue were excised from the right side of each carcass. In addition, thin-layer chromatography was utilized to obtain phospholipid and triacylglycerol fractions from total lipid extracts of semitendinosus and longissimus muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissue from 10 bull and steer cohorts (N = 20). The most prominent sex condition effect was in percentage of total poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). Bull tissues contained higher (P<.01) percentages of PUFA than those of steers at all sampling sites. This reflected higher percentages of linoleate (C18:2), linolenate (C18:3) and arachidonate (C20:4) in bull tissues. Most of the PUFA were present as phospholipids in muscle samples. The fatty acid composition of muscle phospholipids was similar regardless of sex condition or muscle sampled. Total lipid extracts of semitendinosus and triceps brachii muscles of both bulls and steers contained from 6 to 10% more unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) compared with M. longissimus. Muscle triacylglycerols contained relatively high percentages of saturated fatty acids (SFA). Semitendinosus and longissimus samples from steers contained higher (P<.05 and P<.01, respectively) percentages of total SFA than those from bulls. Steer samples contained slightly higher percentages of palmitic acid (C16:0) compared with bulls at all sampling sites, and this difference was significant for M. longissimus. The fat:lean ratio of muscle tissue is the major factor that determines fatty acid composition.

Footnotes

1 The authors thank Dr. Thomas Ringkob, Edward Dunn and Gary Fellwock for assistance with tissue sampling. The help of Dr. Young Koh, Lisa Coleman and Anne McCuskey with data processing is greatly appreciated.

2 Dept. of Anim. Sci. To whom reprint requests should be sent.

3 Dept. of Biochem.






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