Mechanism of Polyuria after Cisplatin Therapy
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Abstract
Cisplatin is an antineoplastic agent. Several nephrotoxic effects are associated with its use including chronic and acute renal failure, renal magnesium wasting, and polyuria. We have investigated polyuria in groups of rats treated with cisplatin at doses of 2.5 and 5 mg/kg body weight given once weekly for 3 weeks to determine possible mechanisms of this impairment. After cisplatin administration, glomerular filtration rate was reduced and significant increases in sodium and water loss were also seen. These changes were associated with decreases in urinary cAMP. Inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) cells were removed from these animals and were stimulated with graded doses of vasopressin. Cells from cisplatin-treated rats showed an impaired response in cAMP generation to vasopressin stimulation as compared to cells from normal animals. To determine more precisely the site of impairment, the adenylate cyclase complex of the IMCD cells was further studied with forskolin and NaF. Forskolin was used to probe the catalytic unit activating adenylate cyclase, and NaF the guanine nucleotide regulatory protein (G protein). In response to forskolin, cells from cisplatin-treated rats and normal rats responded similarly in generating cAMP. However, following NaF, the cAMP response was blunted in the cells from the cisplatin rats. These results suggested that the catalytic unit was not injured by cisplatin (forskolin study) but the G protein was (NaF). In conclusion, the present study suggests that the polyuria seen following cisplatin administration is associated with an end-organ resistance to vasopressin manifested by reduced cAMP generation, secondary in part or whole to a defect at the level of the G protein.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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.
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