Efficacy of Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony‐Stimulating Factor in a Murine Model of Pneumococcal Pneumonia: Effects of Lung Inflammation and Timing of Treatment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The effect of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) in a murine model of pneumococcal pneumonia was examined. Intranasal inoculations were 10(7) cfu/mouse (high inoculum) and 5 x 10(4) cfu/mouse (low inoculum) of Streptococcus pneumoniae, which induced severe or mild lung inflammation, respectively. With the low inoculum, rhG-CSF significantly improved survival when initiated 24 h or 10 min before, but not when initiated 24 h after, infection. Pretreatment with rhG-CSF significantly increased myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in lungs 8 h after the infection and increased circulating neutrophil count 24, 48, and 72 h after infection. In contrast, rhG-CSF did not improve survival of animals infected with the high inoculum and did not increase MPO activity or neutrophil count in blood over those of sham-treated controls. These data strongly suggest that the severe inflammatory response typically observed in pneumococcal pneumonia recruits a maximum number of neutrophils in the lungs and thus masks the beneficial effect of rhG-CSF.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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 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".