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Microglial Response to Gold Nanoparticles

2010· article· en· 317 citations· W1967850823 on OpenAlex· 10.1021/nn901869f

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Full frame distilled prediction

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.

Candidate categories
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categories
none
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Bench or experimentalConsensus signal: Bench or experimental
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.077
Threshold uncertainty score
0.999
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
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)0.0000.002

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

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.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread
0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Given the emergence of nanotherapeutics and nanodiagnostics as key tools in today's medicine, it has become of critical importance to define precisely the interactions of nanomaterials with biological systems and to characterize the resulting cellular response. We report here the interactions of microglia and neurons with gold nanoparticles (GNPs) of three morphologies, spheres, rods, and urchins, coated with poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) or cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). Microglia are the resident immune cells of the brain, primarily involved in surveillance, macrophagy, and production of cytokines and trophic factors. Analysis by dark-field microscopy and by two-photon-induced luminescence (TPL) indicates that the exposure of neural cells to GNPs resulted in (i) GNP internalization by both microglial cells and primary hippocampal neurons, as revealed by dark-field microscopy and by two-photon-induced luminescence (TPL), (ii) transient toll-like receptor 2 (TLR-2) up-regulation in the olfactory bulb, after intranasal administration in transgenic mice, in vivo, in real time, and (iii) differential up-regulation in vitro of TLR-2 together with interleukin 1 alpha (IL-1alpha), granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and nitric oxide (NO) in microglia. The study demonstrates that GNP morphology and surface chemistry strongly influence the microglial activation status and suggests that interactions between GNPs and microglia can be differentially regulated by tuning GNP nanogeometry.

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The record

Venue
ACS Nano
Topic
Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Field
Neuroscience
Canadian institutions
Université LavalCentre hospitalier de l'Université LavalBombardier (Canada)Université de MontréalMcGill University
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Keywords
MicrogliaInternalizationBiophysicsCell biologyChemistryMaterials scienceNanotechnologyBiologyReceptorImmunologyInflammationBiochemistry
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes