ADENOSINE 3′,5′‐CYCLIC MONOPHOSPHATE IN NORMAL PORCINE MUSCLES

Abstract

ABSTRACTSAs part of a study to define the etiology of pale, soft and exudative pork and porcine stress syndrome, some properties of cyclic AMP, a compound which mediates the action of epinephrine, were studied. Results show that cyclic AMP is uniformly distributed in hog skeletal muscles both within and between muscles and is unstable at 2° but stable at ‐ 20°C and below. Under the conditions of the experiments, no simple relationship is obvious between rate of glycogen breakdown and concentration of cyclic AMP.