In vitro immunosuppressive activity of soluble HLA class I and Fas ligand molecules:do they play a role in autologous blood transfusion?
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The immunomodulatory effects of allogeneic blood transfusion may contribute to a poor prognosis in patients with cancer who are undergoing surgery, and clinical trials have been carried out to investigate whether these patients would benefit from autologous blood donation. As the immunomodulatory effects of allogeneic blood transfusion have been related to soluble molecules released from residual WBCs during storage, the in vitro immunomodulatory activity of soluble molecules detected in supernatants from stored autologous blood was evaluated. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Blood was donated by four healthy volunteers. Packed WBC-reduced RBCs were obtained and stored for 30 days, and supernatants were collected. FFP and serum were also obtained. The concentration of soluble molecules was determined by immunoenzymatic assays. The in vitro immunomodulatory activity of undiluted blood component supernatant was assessed by antigen-specific cytotoxic T-cell activity and mixed lymphocyte reactions in autologous combinations and by apoptosis induction in Fas+ cells. RESULTS: The concentrations of soluble Fas-ligand and HLA class I molecules were higher in packed RBCs than in WBC-reduced RBCs, FFP, and serum. Undiluted supernatants of packed RBCs strongly inhibited functional assays and induced apoptosis in Fas+ cells. The immunomodulatory effects were correlated with the amount of soluble Fas ligand and HLA class I molecules. CONCLUSION: The results of the present study are comparable with those already reported in allogeneic blood components, and they indicate that undiluted supernatants of autologous blood components may exert immunosuppressive effects in vitro.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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