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Record W2043461841 · doi:10.1007/s12079-012-0162-6

CCN3: a novel anti-fibrotic treatment in end-stage renal disease?

2012· article· en· W2043461841 on OpenAlex
Andrew Leask

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cell Communication and Signaling · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicConnective Tissue Growth Factor Research
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineGlomerulosclerosisAlbuminuriaFibrosisDiabetic nephropathyRenal functionEnd stage renal diseaseKidney diseaseIn vivoUrologyAngiogenesisNephropathyInternal medicineDiseaseKidneyEndocrinologyPathologyProteinuriaDiabetes mellitusBiology

Abstract

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Fibrosis is a major cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) a progressive loss in renal function that occurs over a period of months or years, is characterized by a decreased capability of the kidneys to excrete waste products. There is no specific treatment unequivocally shown to slow the worsening of chronic kidney disease. Plasma levels of CCN2, a fibrogenic agent, is a predictor of ESRD and mortality in patients with type 1 diabetic nephropathy. CCN3 has been hypothesized to have antagonistic effects to CCN2 both in vitro and in vivo, including in cultured mesangial cells. In a recent study, van Roeyen and colleagues (Am J Pathol in press, 2012) showed that in vivo overexpression of CCN3 in a model of anti-Thy1.1-induced experimental glomerulonephritis resulted in decreased albuminuria, glomerulosclerosis and reduced cortical collagen type I accumulation. CCN3 enhanced angiogenesis yes suppressed mesangial cell proliferation. Thus CCN3 protein may represent a novel therapeutic approach to help repair glomerular endothelial damage and mesangioproliferative changes and hence prevent renal failure, glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.131
Threshold uncertainty score0.278

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it