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Record W2112142021 · doi:10.1212/wnl.62.2.168

Suppressing immunity in advancing MS

2004· letter· en· W2112142021 on OpenAlexaff
Mark S. Freedman, Harold Atkins

Bibliographic record

VenueNeurology · 2004
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMultiple Sclerosis Research Studies
Canadian institutionsOttawa Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeurodegenerationMultiple sclerosisExperimental autoimmune encephalomyelitisImmune systemInflammationImmunosuppressionMedicineMyelinNeuroscienceDiseaseImmunologyEncephalomyelitisNeuroimmunologyCentral nervous systemBiologyPathology

Abstract

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Although no direct evidence exists that the immune system per se initiates the attack on myelin in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), several observations strongly support this theory. Immune infiltrates are present at the sites of greatest damage; animal models (e.g., experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis) prove that T cells alone can transfer disease from affected to unaffected animals; and therapies that are aimed at either modulating or suppressing the immune system can reduce disease activity. Pathologically, the destructive process includes not only demyelination, but also the early loss of axons and neurons. It is not known how inflammation leads to loss of neuronal elements but once this loss begins, it becomes a neurodegenerative condition—and may be the ultimate cause of clinical impairment and disability in MS. The effectiveness of a treatment may be dependent on which of the intertwined pathologic processes of immune-mediated inflammation and neurodegeneration predominates in the patient. In some patients, the destructive process ultimately leading to irreversible neurodegeneration arises early, becoming extensive and disabling. More powerful immunosuppression may be warranted in this select group of patients; however, because of the toxicity of these agents, they are often reserved until more advanced disabilities are present, a time when destruction may already be irreversible. It is not …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0130.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

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 head0.043
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.284 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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Published2004
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