Radiation-induced strain differences in mouse alveolar inflammatory cell apoptosis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Whole-thorax irradiation results in the development of the diffuse inflammatory response alveolitis in C3H/HeJ (C3H) mice and a milder alveolitis with fibrosis in C57BL/6J (B6) mice. In this study, we investigate if this mouse strain difference in response to radiation is due to differences in lung inflammatory cell apoptosis. Mice of the C3H and B6 strains were given a radiation dose of 18 Gy to the thorax and the animals were sacrificed at 11 or 18 weeks following exposure or when they were moribund. Active caspase-3 staining was used to identify apoptotic cells in the alveolar space of histological lung sections from the mice. The apoptotic index of B6 mice was greater than that of C3H mice at 11 weeks postirradiation (17.8% of airspace cells vs. 7.8%, p = 0.028) and in mice sacrificed because of illness (27.3% vs. 14.4%, p = 0.036). No C3H mice survived to the later time point. The inflammatory cells undergoing apoptosis in the mouse lungs were morphologically consistent with alveolar macrophages. We conclude that a difference in inflammatory cell apoptosis may contribute to the disparate pulmonary radiation response of these mouse strains.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".