MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort

Localization of Hsp60 and Grp78 in the human testis, epididymis and mature spermatozoa

2009· article· en· W1599209244 on OpenAlex
Catherine Lachance, Marlène Fortier, Véronique Thimon, Robert Sullivan, Janice L. Bailey, Pierre Leclerc

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Andrology · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicHeat shock proteins research
Canadian institutionsCentre hospitalier universitaire de QuébecUniversité Laval
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsEpididymisHSP60Heat shock proteinBiologySpermatogenesisWestern blotSpermCell biologySertoli cellImmunohistochemistryMolecular biologyAndrologyHsp70ImmunologyGeneticsGeneEndocrinologyMedicine

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Molecular chaperones of the heat shock proteins (HSP) family are important in numerous cellular processes. In this study, the expression of Hsp60 and Grp78 proteins was investigated in the male reproductive tract. The cellular distribution of Hsp60 and Grp78 proteins was analysed in the human testis and epididymis by immunohistochemical approaches. DNA microarray technology was used to analyse HSP60 and GRP78 gene expression along human epididymis. The cellular localization of these chaperone proteins in ejaculated spermatozoa was investigated by indirect immunofluorescence and by Western blot following sperm sub-cellular fractionation. In the human testis, Hsp60 was detected in spermatogonia, whereas a strong Grp78 staining was observed in spermatocytes and round spermatids. Grp78 protein was also observed in the epididymal epithelium, whereas no Hsp60 staining was observed in this organ by immunohistochemistry. The presence of both Hsp60 and Grp78 RNA in human epididymis was confirmed by microarrays. In ejaculated spermatozoa, Hsp60 was localized in the mid-piece, whereas Grp78 was detected in the neck region. These results indicate that in addition to being expressed in human testis spermatogenic cells, both Hsp60 and Grp78 proteins persist in ejaculated spermatozoa. These findings are in agreement with the involvement of Hsp60 and Grp78 during spermatogenesis and in sperm functions such as fertilization.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.562
Threshold uncertainty score0.143

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it