the greater damage to mitochondrial membranes upon slow thawing can not be due to a longer exposure of the muscle cell to increased ionic strength in the non-freezable part of the cell water at the `` '' critical '' '' temperature around -3 degrees c because freezing of muscle samples at -3 degrees c and incubating them at -3 degrees c for five days resulted neither in changes of the total enzyme activities nor in a release of the three mitochondrial enzymes .
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