Dissociation of Vasospasm and Secondary Effects of Experimental Subarachnoid Hemorrhage by Clazosentan
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Endothelin receptor antagonists such as clazosentan decrease large-artery vasospasm after experimental and clinical subarachnoid hemorrhage. We used clazosentan to gain insight into the pathophysiology of subarachnoid hemorrhage by determining if decreasing vasospasm is associated with alleviation of other secondary complications of subarachnoid hemorrhage such as oxidative stress, endothelial nitric oxide synthase dysfunction, microthromboembolism, and neuronal injury. METHODS: Mice were subjected to subarachnoid hemorrhage by injection of blood into the chiasmatic cistern. They were treated with clazosentan or vehicle by continuous intraperitoneal infusion for 48 hours. Middle cerebral artery vasospasm, superoxide anion radical, peroxynitrite, microthromboemboli, endothelial nitric oxide synthase uncoupling, cerebral blood flow, neuronal injury, and mortality were assessed. RESULTS: Clazosentan preserved cerebral blood flow, alleviated vasospasm, and decreased mortality but did not affect superoxide anion radical, peroxynitrite, or microthromboemboli in the brain. Endothelial nitric oxide synthase uncoupling and neuronal injury also were not reduced by clazosentan. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows large-artery vasospasm is pathophysiologically independent of some other effects of subarachnoid hemorrhage. The findings have implications for development of treatments for this disease.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| 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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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