Prenatal cigarette smoke exposure and postnatal respiratory responses to hypoxia and hypercapnia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prenatal cigarette smoke (CS) exposure, in combination with hypoxia and/or hyperthermia can lead to gasping and attenuated recovery from hypoxia in 7 days old rat pups. We studied 95 unanesthetized spontaneously breathing 14 days old rat pups to investigate if the destabilizing effects of increased ambient temperature and prenatal CS exposure on respiratory control observed in 7 days old rats were still evident at day 14. This postnatal age was selected as it is beyond the analogous risk period for SIDS in human. Furthermore, we investigated if the breathing responses to hypercapnia are affected by prenatal CS exposure. Since high ambient (HA) temperature can lead to gasping and aberrant respiratory control, we recorded respiratory patterns at low (24-25°C) and high (29-30°C) ambient temperatures, and under hypoxic or hypercapnic states. No gasping was observed in 14 days old rat pups. During hypoxia, breathing frequency increased in the CS-exposed group under low and HA temperatures. Rectal temperature decreased only in the sham group in response to low ambient temperature hypoxia. At HA temperature, breathing frequency increased in both sham and CS-exposed groups during hypercapnia, however, it remained elevated during washout period only in the sham group. We demonstrate that prenatal CS exposure continues to have profound effects on respiratory and thermoregulatory responses to hypoxia and hypercapnia at day 14. The attenuated respiratory and thermoregulatory responses to acute hypoxia and hypercapnia on day 14 demonstrate a strong interaction between CS exposure, respiratory control, and thermoregulation during postnatal maturation.
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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 | 0.002 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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