Retinoid Signalling and Skeletal Development
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Metabolites of vitamin A, including retinoic acid (RA), comprise a class of molecules known to be important in development and homeostasis. RA functions through a class of nuclear hormone receptors, the RA receptors (RARs), to regulate gene transcription. In the developing mammalian limb, RA affects the differentiation of many cell lineages, including those of the chondrogenic lineage. In excess, RA is a potent teratogen, causing characteristic skeletal defects in a stage- and dose-dependent manner. Genetic analysis has shown that the absence of RARs leads to severe deficiencies in cartilage formation at certain anatomical locations while promoting ectopic cartilage formation at other sites. Expression of either a dominant-negative or a weak constitutively active RAR in the developing limbs of transgenic mice adversely affects chondrogenesis leading to skeletal malformations. Together, these results show that RAR-mediated signalling plays a fundamental role in skeletogenesis. This chapter will focus on the function of RARs in regulating chondroblast differentiation and the contribution of RA signalling to appositional and longitudinal growth of the skeletal primordia.
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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) | 0.001 | 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".