Blocking cerebrospinal fluid absorption through the cribriform plate increases resting intracranial pressure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drains through the cribriform plate (CP) in association with the olfactory nerves. From this location, CSF is absorbed into nasal mucosal lymphatics. Recent data suggest that this pathway plays an important role in global CSF transport in sheep. In this report, we tested the hypothesis that blocking CSF transport through this pathway would elevate resting intracranial pressure (ICP). ICP was measured continuously from the cisterna magna of sheep before and after CP obstruction in the same animal. To block CSF transport through the CP, an external ethmoidectomy was performed. The olfactory and adjacent mucosa were removed, and the bone surface was sealed with tissue glue. To restrict our analysis to the cranial CSF system, CSF transport into the spinal subarachnoid compartment was prevented with a ligature tightened around the thecal sac between C1 and C2. Sham surgical procedures had no significant effects, but in the experimental group CP obstruction elevated ICP significantly. Mean postobstruction steady-state pressures (18.0 +/- 3.8 cmH(2)O) were approximately double the preobstruction values (9.2 +/- 0.9 cmH(2)O). These data support the concept that the olfactory pathway represents a major site for CSF drainage.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 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)
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.
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