Adrenergic Regulation of Hypothalamic Proenkephalin Neurons: Evidence for Opposite Effects in Subpopulations Terminating in Median Eminence and Neurointermediate Pituitary
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The effect of adrenergic influences on Met-enkephalin concentrations in median eminence, neurointermediate pituitary and hypothalamus outside median eminence were examined. Met-enkephalin levels in median eminence were augmented by administration of the alpha 1-adrenergic agonist methoxamine acutely or chronically and decreased by the selective depletion of adrenergic transmitters by 6-hydroxydopamine. Met-enkephalin levels in neurointermediate lobe were decreased by methoxamine but unaffected by depletion of noradrenaline/adrenaline. These results indicate that adrenergic mechanisms maintain Met-enkephalin concentrations tonically in median eminence and deplete Met-enkephalin concentrations in neurointermediate lobe. These results suggest differential adrenergic regulation of hypothalamic proenkephalin neurons terminating in median eminence and neural lobe of pituitary.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| 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)
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.
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".