Molecular Biology of Gastrointestinal Peptides and Growth Factors: Relevance to Intestinal Adaptation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
New approaches towards understanding regulation of growth and adaptation of the small intestine are made possible by the isolation and characterization of genes and complementary DNAs (cDNAs) encoding gastrointestinal peptides, growth factors and their receptors. Nucleotide sequencing provides prerequisite structural information. Analyses of gene expression by quantitation and localization of mRNAs provide information about correlations between local alterations in peptide or receptor synthesis and intestinal growth. Analyses of intestinal growth in transgenic animals that overexpress or underexpress growth factor or receptor genes provides direct information about peptide effects on growth. Our recent studies with genes and cDNAs encoding proglucagon and the growth hormone dependent insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-I) represent examples of these approaches. Sequences of proglucagon and IGF-I cDNAs provide the primary structures of the peptide precursors. Analyses of proglucagon mRNA during adaptive growth after small bowel resection indicate that increases in proglucagon gene transcription or mRNA stability underly previously observed increases in serum enteroglucagons during adaptive growth. Analyses of IGF-I mRNAs in intestine indicate that small intestine expresses only a subset of the IGF-I mRNAs expressed in liver due to utilization of specific promotors and/or exon splicing mechanisms. Oligomers derived from the 3' end of the rat IGF-I gene detect a novel intestinal specific IGF-I related mRNA that shows an aboral decline in abundance from duodenum to colon and is upregulated in a number of situations of adaptive growth. Transgenic mice that overexpress growth hormone or IGF-I are under analysis to establish the effects of growth hormone and IGF-I on intestinal growth.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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