Resistin expression and regulation in mouse pituitary
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Resistin, a new adipocytokine, is expressed in human, rat and mouse adipose tissue. Its putative role as a mediator of insulin resistance is controversial. We hypothesized that resistin, in common with leptin, has multiple roles in non-adipose tissues. Using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) we show that the resistin gene (Retn) is expressed in mouse brain (hypothalamus and cortex) and pituitary gland. Immunohistochemistry revealed resistin protein in the arcuate nucleus and pituitary gland. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis indicated that Retn mRNA is developmentally regulated in the pituitary. Expression was lowest at birth, increased abruptly between postnatal days 14 and 25 (four-fold; P<0.001), and declined thereafter. This peak in pituitary Retn mRNA was unaffected by early weaning but was abolished by neonatal treatment with monosodium glutamate, suggesting that the basal hypothalamus regulates pituitary Retn. Although the role(s) of endogenous resistin in mouse brain and pituitary remains to be determined, it may be distinct from its controversial involvement in insulin resistance. Our data suggest that local resistin expression could have functional implications during prepubertal maturation of the hypothalamic-pituitary system.
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it