Effect of disturbed flow on nanoparticle uptake in endothelial cells
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Abstract
n recent years, the focus of nanotechnology research has shifted from industrial applications, such as cosmetic or oil & gas (1,2), to those with a greater impact on medicine. Researchers are attempting to harness the ability of nanoparticles (NPs) to target specific areas of the body for the purpose of drug delivery or medical imaging (3,4). In order to predict how nanoparticles will accumulate once they enter the blood stream, a greater understanding of the effect of fluid flow on cellular interactions with NPs is required. Current research examines the effect of shape, size, and density on NP uptake (5), but very little attention is paid to the way in which flow disturbances affect how NPs accumulate. Disturbed flow regimes are characteristic in many biological systems in areas of vascular branching or curvature, regions of new vessel growth or in the presence of atherosclerotic plaques (6). In this study, a sudden expansion parallel plate flow chamber was used to examine the effects of flow rate (shear stress) as well as flow pattern on the uptake of NP by human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Fluorescence microscopy was used to image and quantify the presence of NPs following 30 minutes of exposure. As previous findings suggest (7), an increase in shear stress resulted in a decrease in NP uptake. Statically grown cells subject to short term flow and NP exposure exhibited equal accumulation in regions of disturbed and laminar flow, while preconditioning of HUVEC to flow for 24 hrs resulted in a difference in uptake between the two flow regimes. The results suggest that prolonged exposure to specific flow patterns may cause physiological changes that affect NP uptake. Such observations are important to ensure that in vitro studies are accurate predictors of NP behavior in biological models and warrant further exploration.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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