Quantification of lipid in cultured 3T3-L1 adipocytes
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Abstract
Abstract A preliminary study was conducted to quantify the lipid produced by differentiated 3T3-L1 cells after incubation in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) containing 10% foetal bovine serum (FBS), supplemented with or without dimethyl-sulphoxide (DMSO; 9•6 g/l) and acetone (1•2 g/l). The two media treatments were applied to 3T3-L1 cells, plated at either 15K or 30K cells per well in 24-well plates. Cells were grown to confluence (96 h) and then treated with dexamethasone, methyl-isobutylxanthine and insulin for 48 h and later maintained in their respective media treatments for another 144 h. Cells from each treatment were recovered after two, 5-min incubations with trypsin, washed and resuspended in DMEM and counted on a haemocytometer. The lipid in the cells was extracted with hexane derivatized with tetramethyl-guanidine and analysed by gas chromatography. Final mean cell density was 6•8 (s.e. 0•18) ✕ 10 5 and 4•6 (s.e. 0•19) ✕ 10 5 when initially plated at 30K and 15K cells per well, respectively. Inclusion of DMSO and acetone in the medium did not affect final cell numbers. Plating density did not affect concentration of lipid (0•55 (s.e. 0•08) mg per 1 ✕ 10 5 cells) but inclusion of DMSO and acetone led to overall decreases in total lipid concentration. Results indicate that initial plating density influenced final cell number in treatment cultures, but that DMSO and acetone treatments only had an effect on final lipid concentration. Collectively, these data suggest that the application of treatments to cell cultures may be influenced by the carrier vehicle that the treatment is contained in and this should be considered when developing an in vitro system to evaluate growth and development of adipocytes.
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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".