Stage‐dependent modulation of limb regeneration by caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE)—immunocytochemical evidence of a CAPE‐evoked delay in mesenchyme formation and limb regeneration
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), a natural compound of bee propolis, selectively inhibits proliferation of transformed cells in several cancer models in vitro. To examine in vivo CAPE function, we used the newt regeneration blastema as a model system wherein the processes of de-differentiation and subsequent proliferation of undifferentiated cells mimic changes associated with oncogenic transformation and tumorigenesis. We have shown that a single dose of CAPE significantly increased cell proliferation at the stages of blastema growth and re-differentiation. At the de-differentiation stage, CAPE significantly stimulated proliferation of wound epidermis keratinocytes, but decreased proliferation in the blastema mesenchyme. Immunohistochemistry with a mesenchymal cell marker, vimentin, revealed a highly significant reduction of vimentin staining in the mesenchyme of CAPE-treated regenerates (p<0.001). These results, together with morphological observations indicate that, at the de-differentiation stage, CAPE stimulated wound re-epithelization, increased keratinocyte proliferation and increased thickness of the wound epidermis. However, CAPE inhibited mesenchyme formation and proliferation. The functional consequence of the CAPE inhibitory action was a delay in limb regeneration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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)
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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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