Morphometric Study of Structural Changes in the Mesenteric Blood Vessels of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Structural changes of three categories of mesenteric arteries (representing elastic, muscular and arteriolar vessels) from 10- to 12-week-old and 28-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were studied morphometrically at the light microscope level, and the results compared with age-matched Wistar-Kyoto normotensive rats. In 10- to 12-week-old SHR, hypertrophy of the vessel wall occurred only in the muscular and arteriolar vessels. At 28 weeks, further thickening of the vessel wall occurred in the muscular and arteriolar vessels, and the superior mesenteric artery (elastic vessel) was also thickened in the SHR. There was no evidence that the wall of the relaxed hypertrophied vessels encroached upon the lumen of the vessel. The structural basis for the increase in the vessel wall thickness varied with vessel type. In the superior mesenteric artery, increase in the media at 28 weeks of age would be consistent with hypertrophy of the smooth muscle cells. In the large muscular arteries, at 10-12 weeks of age, increase in medial mass occurred with increase in the number of the smooth muscle cell layers whereas at 28 weeks further increase in media could be due to hypertrophy of the smooth muscle cells. In the small arteriolar vessels, medial enlargement was due at all ages to an increase in the number of smooth muscle layers. Our results show that in the SHR hypertrophy of the media occurs not only in the small arteriolar vessels, but also in large elastic and muscular arteries.
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.
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 | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 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 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".