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Record W2106122267 · doi:10.1093/clinchem/46.6.793

How Much “UFC” Is Really Cortisol?

2000· editorial· en· W2106122267 on OpenAlexaff
Beverley E. Pearson Murphy

Bibliographic record

VenueClinical Chemistry · 2000
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHormonal Regulation and Hypertension
Canadian institutionsMontreal General Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicine

Abstract

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When urinary free cortisol (UFC) determinations became readily available for clinical use in 1968 (1), chromatographic methods were cumbersome. The first competitive protein-binding method (radiotransinassay) (1) used human corticosteroid-binding globulin (transcortin) as the binding protein. The specificity of the assay was enhanced by the use of Fuller’s earth as the agent to adsorb the unbound fraction because it takes up some of the competing steroids differentially (2). The reference interval was ∼10–100 μg/day (30–300 nmol/day). When radioimmunoassays, based on the same competitive binding principle but using antibodies raised to cortisol linked to albumin, became popular during the 1970s, it was assumed that these would be more specific for cortisol, but this assumption was not warranted. As pointed out recently (3), most of the articles published over the past 20 years have quoted even higher values, reflecting a significant lack of specificity. In 1976, Chattoraj et al. (4) found values for UFC after combined thin-layer and column chromatography that were approximately one-half those of the original method (1), as did Schoneshofer et …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.116
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.326 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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".

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Citations41
Published2000
Admission routes1
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