Enhancement of the hypoxic ventilatory response following neonatal maternal separation: the role of testosterone in adult male rats
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Neonatal maternal separation (NMS) disrupts normal neurological development in mammals. The hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR) of adult male rats previously subjected to NMS is ~25% greater than controls while the response of NMS females is reduced by ~30% (Genest et al., 2004). To address the role of sexual hormones on the respiratory phenotype observed in NMS males, we compared the HVR of normal adults (10‐14 weeks old; controls n = 6, NMS n = 6) with that of gonadectomised (GDX) adult males (controls n = 7, NMS n = 6) in which circulating testosterone levels are considerably reduced. Pups subjected to NMS were placed in an incubator 3h/day for 10 consecutive days (P3 to P12). Controls were undisturbed. Rats were then reared until adulthood when HVR was measured with plethysmography (12% O 2 , 20 min). In controls, GDX had no effect on the HVR. In NMS rats, GDX reduced the HVR 50% below that of controls (GDX x NMS; p = 0.03) with a pattern now similar to the respiratory phenotype of female rats. These results indicate that testosterone is necessary for full expression of the HVR in NMS but not in control males, and likely contributes to the enhancement of the HVR following NMS. Supported by the CIHR.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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