Structure of the primordial diaphragm and defects associated with nitrofen-induced CDH
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The goals of this study were to further our understanding of diaphragm embryogenesis and the pathogenesis of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). Past work suggests that the pleuroperitoneal fold (PPF) is the primary source of diaphragmatic musculature. Furthermore, defects associated with an animal model of CDH can be traced back to the formation of the PPF. This study was designed to elucidate the anatomic structure of the PPF and to determine which regions of the PPF malform in the well-established nitrofen model of CDH. This was achieved by producing three-dimensional renderings constructed from serial transverse sections of control and nitrofen-exposed rats at embryonic day 13.5. Renderings of left- and right-sided defects demonstrated that the malformations were always limited to the dorsolateral portions of the caudal regions of the PPF. These data provide an explanation of why the holes in diaphragmatic musculature associated with CDH are characteristically located in dorsolateral regions. Moreover, these data provide further evidence against the widely stated hypothesis that a failure of pleuroperitoneal canal closure underlies the pathogenesis of nitrofen-induced CDH.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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.
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