The reversible hydration of the malaria pigment β-hematin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
β-Hematin, the crystalline heme detoxification product of red blood cell digestion by the malaria parasite, can reversibly absorb up to 14% of its mass in water. Heating hydrated β-hematin to temperatures greater than 150 °C results in loss of the hydrated water, which is readily reabsorbed on standing in air at room temperature. The amount of water absorbed is source dependent with highly crystalline samples produced by the anhydrous-base-mediated dehydrohalogenation being twice as absorptive as more amorphous samples produced by the aqueous acid precipitation method. Infrared spectroscopy and thermal gravimetric analysis have been used to measure the amount of water lost and gained during these experiments. X-ray powder diffraction has been used to characterize the effect of hydration state on the lattice parameters. Taken together these experiments resolve literature discrepancies concerning the elemental composition of synthetic and extracted natural β-hematin.Key words: malaria pigment, hemozoin, β-hematin, hydration, thermal gravimetric analysis, powder diffraction.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.001 | 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".