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Rapid flow cytometric test for the diagnosis of membrane cytoskeleton‐associated haemolytic anaemia

2000· article· en· W2075365678 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBritish Journal of Haematology · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicErythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
Canadian institutionsSt Mary's Hospital Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHereditary spherocytosisSpherocytosisSpectrinMolecular biologyMedicineBand 3Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresisFlow cytometryPathologyChemistryBiologyMembrane proteinImmunologyInternal medicineBiochemistryMembraneCytoskeletonEnzyme

Abstract

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The flow cytometric test measures the fluorescence intensity of intact red cells labelled with the dye eosin-5-maleimide, which reacts covalently with Lys-430 on the first extracellular loop of band 3 protein. In this study, red cells from patients with hereditary spherocytosis (HS), congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type II, South-east Asian ovalocytosis and cryohydrocytosis have produced a greater degree of reduction of mean channel fluorescence readings than those for other patient groups and normal controls. The predictive value of this test for membrane abnormality was compared with the results obtained from the sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) method, which is currently the reference laboratory test for the identification of membrane protein deficiencies in hereditary spherocytosis and for the detection of spectrin variants in hereditary elliptocytosis. The dye method is a reliable, speedy diagnostic test (2 h from sample collection to result) for HS with a sensitivity of 92.7% and a specificity of 99.1%. Thus, it will serve well as a first-line screening test for the diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis in routine haematology.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.763
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.022
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.245 · 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