Enhanced <i>S</i> -Nitroso-Albumin Formation From Inhaled NO During Ischemia/Reperfusion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the present study, we investigated whether inhaled nitric oxide (NO) was transported by plasma proteins, such as S-nitroso-albumin (SNO-Alb), in the feline circulation and whether this molecule delivers NO to the periphery under conditions of stress, specifically ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). A flow probe was interposed between the femoral and superior mesenteric artery for blood flow measurements, and a branch of the superior mesenteric vein was cannulated for arterial-venous sampling. In animals breathing room air, SNO-Alb was below detection level in arterial or venous blood. NO inhalation resulted in a significant arterial-venous gradient for SNO-Alb. Concomitant with this loss of SNO-Alb across the intestinal vasculature was an increase in nitrite (NO2-). However, this release of NO was not sufficient to alter intestinal blood flow. I/R during NO inhalation caused a very large increase in arterial SNO-Alb that permitted a 5-fold increase in SNO-Alb consumption and significant generation of NO2- within the postischemic intestinal vasculature. The increased SNO-Alb consumption was sufficient to dramatically improve intestinal blood flow. The very large burst of arterial SNO-Alb during I/R was completely blocked by the administration of superoxide dismutase, suggesting that oxidative stress contributed to the increased SNO-Alb formation. Our data suggest that inhaled NO can increase nitrosothiol production and these molecules may be a functional NO delivery system during cardiovascular disease.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
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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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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