<scp>l</scp>-Arginine protects human heart cells from low-volume anoxia and reoxygenation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Protective effects of L-arginine were evaluated in a human ventricular heart cell model of low-volume anoxia and reoxygenation independent of alternate cell types. Cell cultures were subjected to 90 min of low-volume anoxia and 30 min of reoxygenation. L-Arginine (0-5.0 mM) was administered during the preanoxic period or the reoxygenation phase. Nitric oxide (NO) production, NO synthase (NOS) activity, cGMP levels, and cellular injury were assessed. To evaluate the effects of the L-arginine on cell signaling, the effects of the NOS antagonist N(G)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester, NO donor S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine, guanylate cyclase inhibitor methylene blue, cGMP analog 8-bromo-cGMP, and ATP-sensitive K+ channel antagonist glibenclamide were examined. Our data indicate that low-volume anoxia and reoxygenation increased NOS activity and facilitated the conversion of L-arginine to NO, which provided protection against cellular injury in a dose-dependent fashion. In addition, L-arginine cardioprotection was achieved by the activation of guanylate cyclase, leading to increased cGMP levels in human heart cells. This action involves a glibenclamide-sensitive, NO-cGMP-dependent pathway.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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
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