Unraveling the impact of heat stress on meat quality: integrating physiology, epigenetics, and postmortem biochemistry

Key Points

• The study aims to explore how heat stress affects meat quality through physiological and epigenetic changes during animal growth.
• Review of existing literature on heat stress effects in livestock
• Analysis of physiological mechanisms during growth under heat stress
• Discussion of postmortem biochemical changes in various species
• Heat stress alters energy metabolism and induces oxidative stress in livestock
• Diverse postmortem meat quality outcomes are observed across poultry, ruminants, and swine
• Biochemical changes influenced by heat stress affect consumer preferences for meat

Abstract