Cytoskeleton, Adhesion, and Extracellular Matrix of Fetal Human Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells in Culture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Small sheets of human retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells isolated from 6- to 9-week-old fetal human eyes were used to establish RPE cells in culture. After 4-5 days in culture the RPE cells in various parts of a colony were examined by immunofluorescence and fluorescence microscopy to determine the distribution of the cytoskeletal proteins tubulin, myosin, F-actin, vimentin, and cytokeratin and the extracellular matrix proteins laminin and type IV collagen. The extracellular matrix components laminin and type IV collagen, which are abundant underneath the RPE cells in the centre of the colony, progressively decrease in amount towards the edge of the colony. Microtubules labeled by antisera to tubulin were present in the cytoplasm of RPE cells throughout the colony. F-actin and myosin were found in stress fibres in the RPE cells at the edge of the colony and in compact circumferential rings circumscribing the apical ends in RPE cells in the centre of the colony. Examination of cell-substratum adhesion patterns by interference reflection microscopy showed that focal contacts were present only in RPE cells at the edge of the colony where they were located at the ends of the stress fibres. The large focal adhesions previously observed in colonies of chick RPE cells, however, were not seen in human RPE cells. Human RPE cells throughout the colony had cytokeratin-containing intermediate filaments as well as vimentin-containing intermediate filaments, whereas only the latter were observed in chick RPE cells. These results indicate that in the general organization of the cytoskeleton and in the distribution of the extracellular matrix components, laminin and type IV collagen, colonies of human RPE cells are similar but not identical to colonies of chick RPE cells.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| 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) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".