Evidence For The Existence Of A Constitutive Nitric Oxide Synthase In Vascular Smooth Muscle
Bibliographic record
Abstract
1. We have identified a neuronal nitric oxide synthase (NOS)-like constitutive form of NOS in vascular smooth muscle (VSM) using a functional contractility approach as well as immunohistochemical methods. 2. N(G)-Nitro-L-arginine methyl ester, N(G)-monomethyl-L- arginine and N(G)-nitro-L-arginine (L-NOARG), the competitive inhibitors of NOS, inhibited Mg(2+)-induced relaxation of de-endothelialized rat aorta precontracted with phenylephrine (PE). This Mg(2+) relaxation of VSM was not affected by inhibitors of inducible NOS. 3. Electrical field stimulation (EFS; 30-70 Hz) caused relaxation of rat aorta in the presence of tetrodotoxin (therefore not a neurogenic effect) and this EFS relaxation was effectively inhibited by L-NOARG, oxyhemoglobin and methylene blue. 4. Immunohistochemical studies of dog saphenous vein using antibodies raised against neuronal NOS indicated prominent staining along the plasmalemma in a punctate pattern similar to the distribution of antibodies against caveolin-1, a major constituent of the plasmalemmal caveolae. 5. We propose that a constitutive NOS of non-endothelial, non-neuronal origin is present in a special caveolae domain of VSM cell membranes and could be activated by an ionic mechanism yet to be characterized.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".