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Record W2013630753 · doi:10.1159/000122692

Evidence for the Existence of LH-RH Binding Protein

2008· article· en· W2013630753 on OpenAlexaff
S.H. Shin, C. Howitt

Bibliographic record

VenueNeuroendocrinology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicHemoglobin structure and function
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSephadexChemistrySize-exclusion chromatographyChromatographyBovine serum albuminInternal medicineEndocrinologyBiochemistryBiologyEnzyme

Abstract

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LH-RH in rat hypothalamic extract (HE) emerges in 2 peaks after gel filtration on Sephadex G-25 with pyridine acetate buffer (PAB), pH 5.8, 1 peak in the unretarded protein fraction and the other near the salt region. A synthetic LH-RH marker was found only in the peak near the salt region by elution with acid. Using a dialysis technique, a protein fraction, from which LH-RH and other small molecular weight material were dissociated by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25 with acid, showed affinity for synthetic LH-RH. Synthetic LH-RH in the hypothalamic protein solution was retained in the dialysis bags more effectively than other types of protein solutions. This binding protein is of relatively small molecular size according to gel filtration behavior on Sephadex G-75. Since the dialysis experiment showed extremely poor recovery of total LH-RH, we determined the rate of loss of LH-RH under several conditions. The rate of disappearance was significantly less in solutions containing protein derived from cerebellum and hypothalamus, compared to bovine serum albumin (BSA) solution or salt solution. The ability of the hypothalamic protein to retard the rate of disappearance of LH-RH is further evidence for a special affinity between LH-RH and the protein factor. It is concluded that the protein LH-RH complex is dissociated by lowering the pH and that the dissociated protein and synthetic LH-RH can be re-associated to form a protein-hormone (PrH) complex at neutral pH.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2008
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