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Record W2122476363 · doi:10.1139/o01-214

Lactoferrin and host defense

2002· review· en· W2122476363 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBiochemistry and Cell Biology · 2002
Typereview
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicInfant Nutrition and Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLactoferrinTransferrinGlycoproteinTumor necrosis factor alphaInflammationDegranulationDefence mechanismsBiologyCell biologyImmunologyMicrobiologyBiochemistryGeneReceptor

Abstract

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Lactoferrin is a multifunctional member of the transferrin family of nonheme iron-binding glycoproteins. Lactoferrin is found at the mucosal surface where it functions as a prominent component of the first line of host defense against infection and inflammation. The protein is also an abundant component of the specific granules of neutrophils and can be released into the serum upon neutrophil degranulation. While the iron-binding properties were originally believed to be solely responsible for the host defense properties ascribed to lactoferrin, it is now known that other mechanisms contribute to the broad spectrum anti-infective and anti-inflammatory roles of this protein. In this article, current information on the functions and mechanism of action of lactoferrin are reviewed, with particular emphasis on the activities that contribute to this protein's role in host defense. In addition, studies demonstrating that lactoferrin inhibits allergen-induced skin inflammation in both mice and humans, most likely secondary to TNF-alpha (tumor necrosis factor alpha) production, are summarized. Collectively, these results suggest that lactoferrin functions as a key component of mammalian host defense at the mucosal surface.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.989
Threshold uncertainty score0.949

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.040
GPT teacher head0.317
Teacher spread0.277 · 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