The αvβ6 integrin plays a role in compromised epidermal wound healing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The alphavbeta6 integrin is an exclusively epithelial integrin that is highly expressed during fetal development. In adult tissue, alphavbeta6 integrin is expressed during inflammation, carcinogenesis, and in wound healing. We previously reported that alphavbeta6 integrin is highly expressed in poorly healing human wounds and its over-expression is associated with chronic wounds in a mouse model. The objective of this study was to investigate the role of alphavbeta6 integrin in compromised wound healing induced by hydrocortisone treatment or aging by using young and old mice deficient in or overexpressing the beta6 integrin subunit in the epidermis. Untreated aged beta6 integrin-deficient (beta6-/-) animals showed a significant delay in wound healing when compared to their age-matched controls or younger beta6-/- mice. The most significant delay was observed at the stages where granulation tissue deposition was occurring. Hydrocortisone treatment significantly delayed wound healing in wild-type and beta6 integrin-deficient mice in comparison with the untreated controls. However, hydrocortisone treatment in beta6 integrin overexpressing animals did not cause a significant delay in wound healing. The results of this study suggest that alphavbeta6 integrin plays an important role in wound healing in animals compromised by either age or stress mimicked by hydrocortisone.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".