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Record W1970231126 · doi:10.1159/000181008

Pulsatile Nature of Luteinizing Hormone Release Is Maintained during Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Stimulation in Normal Male Rats

2008· article· en· W1970231126 on OpenAlex
Seon H. Shin, Sandra G. Vincent, Beth Vallieres

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueHormone Research · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPulsatile flowEndocrinologyLuteinizing hormoneInternal medicineChemistryStimulationBolus (digestion)HormonePulse (music)Medicine

Abstract

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The plasma LH concentration is believed to be reasonably steady in normal male rats. We found that LH is released in a regular pulsatile fashion. The overall mean concentration of plasma LH in normal male rats was 46.6 +/- 4.4 (mean +/- SEM) ng/ml. The normal male rats showed periodic LH pulses: the mean pulse amplitude was 144.4 +/- 25.5 ng/ml and the inter-peak interval was 22.5 +/- 2.0 min. Each pulse lasted 9.7 +/- 0.8 min. When LH-RH (1 microgram/kg) was injected as a bolus, the peak concentration was attained in 10-30 min reaching a peak concentration of 279.4 +/- 39.6 ng/ml. Distinct pulsatile bursts of plasma LH were discernible during the period of elevated plasma LH concentration. When a higher dose of LH-RH (5 micrograms/kg) was administered, the LH concentration slowly increased to a peak concentration of 400.2 +/- 38.7 ng/ml in 20-40 min. The pulsatile nature of the LH concentration was recognizable with distinct bursts. We have observed that: (a) normal male rats release LH in a pulsatile fashion with an approximate 20-min inter-peak interval; (b) mean LH pulses last less than 10 min, and (c) the LH pulses are visible even with elevated LH and LH-RH concentrations in the general circulation.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
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 score0.923
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.004
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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.288 · 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