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Record W2049012909 · doi:10.1159/000163756

Enhanced Expression of Alpha-Fetoprotein Gene in Cultured Rat Liver Epithelial Cells Treated with N-Methyl-N’-Nitro-N-Nitrosoguanidine

2008· article· en· W2049012909 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePathobiology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicEpigenetics and DNA Methylation
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersNational Cancer InstituteMedical Research Council
KeywordsMolecular biologyCell cultureMethylnitronitrosoguanidineBiologyGene expressionCarcinogenCellLiver cellAlpha-fetoproteinNorthern blotGeneBiochemistryCancer researchMutationInternal medicineHepatocellular carcinoma

Abstract

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The expression of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) gene in a cultured normal rat liver epithelial cell line (WB-F344) and its chemical carcinogen-treated clonal derivatives was examined. WB-F344 cells expressed low levels of AFP and albumin mRNAs. Clonal cell strains and tumor cell lines derived from WB-F344 cells which had been treated multiple times with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) showed heterogeneous levels of expression of AFP mRNA. Enhanced expression was seen in 8 of 18 (44%) cell strains/lines which expressed high gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT) activity, and in 4 of 6 (67%) of GGT-negative cell strains/lines. Southern blot analyses of DNAs after digestion by HpaII endonuclease indicated that MNNG-treated cells frequently showed hypomethylation of the AFP gene. Tumor cell lines derived from WB-F344 cells which were transformed by a single treatment with MNNG consistently expressed higher levels of AFP mRNA than tumor cell lines derived from spontaneously transformed WB-F344 cells. These results suggest that enhanced expression of AFP in MNNG-treated cultured rat liver epithelial cells may be related to the effect of treatment with this carcinogen, which is known to induce DNA hypomethylation.

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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 score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.736

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.210 · 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