Effect of alginate on innate immune activation of macrophages
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alginate, a natural polysaccharide, has been widely used in tissue engineering and drug delivery, but like other biomaterials, it causes inflammation by unknown mechanisms. We hypothesized that alginate would stimulate innate immune responses through macrophage receptors. In this study, we showed that sodium alginate induced activation of macrophage-like cells (RAW264.7) through the NF-kappaB pathway. Production of proinflammatory cytokines, such as IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-12, and TNF-alpha was time and dose-dependent. Treatment with alginate solution caused responses that closely paralleled stimulation by lipopolysaccharide in timing and magnitude. These data suggest that sodium alginate causes innate immune responses through NF-kappaB activation and likely activates the same pathways as pathogen recognition.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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)
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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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