Examining the combinatorial model of motor neuron survival by expression profiling of trophic factors and their receptors in the embryonic <i>Gallus gallus</i>
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Abstract
During embryogenesis, limb-innervating lateral motor column (LMC) spinal motor neurons (MN) are generated in excess and subsequently nearly half of them die. Many motor neuron survival factors (MnSFs) have been shown to suppress this default programmed cell death (PCD) program through their receptors (MnSFRs), raising the possibility that they are involved in matching specific MNs with their target muscles. Published observations suggest a combinatorial model of MnSF/Rs function, which assumes that during the PCD phase, MNs are expressing combinations of MnSFRs, whereas the limb muscles innervated by these MNs express cognate combinations of MnSFs. We tested this model by expression profiling of MnSFs and their receptors in the avian lumbosacral spinal cord and limb muscles during the peak PCD period. Our findings highlight the complexity of MnSF/Rs function in the control of LMC motor neuron survival.
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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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