Genetically Determined Regulators Acting on the Blast Cells of Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Regulatory mechanisms affecting the growth of leukemic cells are attractive targets for new treatments. The blast cells of acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) may be considered as a lineage; a minority are stem cells capable of both self-renewal and determination followed by terminal divisions ending in proliferatively inert cells retaining blast morphology. Two cell culture methods are available for the study of blasts. The first is a clonogenic assay. Blast stem cells form colonies in methylcellulose, containing proliferatively inert blast cells, together with a small number of new progenitors. Growth factor(s) are usually required. These may be supplied by media conditioned by the continuous bladder carcinoma cell line HTB9 (HTB9-CM). The recombinant growth factors GM-CSF and G-CSF are also active, and in many instances are synergistic. Blast progenitors will also grow in suspension, provided the cell density is high and growth factors are provided. In these cultures, blast progenitors increase in number, reflecting their self-renewal capacity. Evidence is also available that specific genes may be involved in the self-renewal process. Thus, three forms of growth regulation, similar to those encoded by proto-oncogenes, can be shown to be operative in AML blast cell cultures.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
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".