Ursodeoxycholic Acid Influences the Expression of<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"><mml:mtext>p</mml:mtext><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>27</mml:mtext></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>kip1</mml:mtext></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:math>but Not FoxO1 in Patients with Non-Cirrhotic Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Enhanced expression of cell cycle inhibitor p27(kip1) suppresses cell proliferation. Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) delays progression of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) but its effect on p27(kip1) expression is uncertain. AIMS: To analyze the expression of p27(kip1) and its transcription modulator FoxO1 in patients with PBC, and to assess the impact of UDCA on this pathway. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The examined human tissue included explanted livers from patients with cirrhotic PBC (n = 23), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC; n = 9), alcoholic liver disease (ALD; n = 9), and routine liver biopsies from patients with non-cirrhotic PBC (n = 26). Healthy liver samples served as controls (n = 19). Livers of FoxO-deficient mice were also studied. mRNA and protein expressions were analyzed by real-time PCR and Western blot. RESULTS: p27(kip1) expression was increased in cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic PBC. FoxO1 mRNA levels were increased in PBC (8.5-fold increase versus controls). FoxO1 protein expression in PBC was comparable to controls, but it was decreased in patients with PSC and ALD (63% and 70% reduction, respectively; both P < 0.05 versus control). UDCA-treated non-cirrhotic patients with PBC showed decreased expression of p27(kip1) mRNA. CONCLUSION: PBC progression is characterized by a FoxO1-independent increase of p27(kip1) expression. In early PBC, UDCA may enhance liver regeneration via p27(kip1)-dependent mechanism.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.088 | 0.003 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".