In vitro reactive nitrating species toxicity in dissociated spinal motor neurons from NFL (−/−) and<i>h</i>NFL (+/+) transgenic mice
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Abstract
We utilized fetal spinal motor neurons isolated from either NFL (-/-) or hNFL (+/+) transgenic mice to determine whether the loss of the low molecular weight neurofilament protein (NFL) places spinal motor neurons at a greater risk for cell death triggered by reactive nitrating species (RNS). After 21 days in serum-free, antibiotic-free medium, both the NFL (-/-) and hNFL (+/+) motor neurons developed neurofilamentous aggregates. Cultures were then exposed to nitric oxide(100 microM NOC 5, 100 microM NOC 12, or 2 mM sodium nitroprusside) or to peroxynitrite (250 mM SIN-1) forvarying intervals. NFL (-/-) cultures demonstrated extensive numbers of apoptotic neurons within six hours and complete cell loss by 24 hours in response to NOC 5 and NOC 12. In contrast, apoptosis was only observed in the motor neurons derived from control (C57bl/6) or hNLF (+/+) mice at 24 hours. In response to 2 mM sodium nitroprusside, necrosis was induced in all cells within 60 minutes. In response to 250 mM SIN-1, both C57bl/6 and hNFL (+/+) cells survived to six hours with only minimal evidence of degeneration while NFL (-/-) motor neurons were necrotic by 60 minutes. These observations suggest that NFL deficient motor neurons are at an enhanced risk of cell death mediated by RNS.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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