Effects of a thyromimetic on apolipoprotein B-100 in rats
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Abstract
We have studied the effects of a cardiac sparing thyromimetic, CGS 23425, on postprandial levels of triglycerides, abundance of apolipoprotein B (apo B) protein and hepatic apo B mRNA expression in rats. When compared with control rats, triglyceride clearance was significantly accelerated by treatment with CGS 23425. A full return to baseline values was achieved within 8 h after ingesting a large quantity of fat, as compared to >24 h in control animals. The abundance of apo B-100 protein in CGS 23425-treated hyperlipidemic rats decreased in a dose-dependent manner, but levels of apo B-48 were not significantly affected. Like L-tri-iodothyronine (L-T(3)), treatment with 30 microg/kg CGS 23425 for 6 or 9 days decreased the levels of apo B-100 protein by 80% and 40% respectively. This change was paralleled by a 27% reduction in hepatic apo B-100 mRNA. To investigate a potential mechanism of CGS 23425 action, we measured in vitro apo B mRNA editing activity in hepatocellular extract from control or CGS 23425-treated rats. Treatment with CGS 23425 increased activity of the hepatic apo B-100 editosome, apobec-1. In human hepatoma cells which lack apobec-1 activity, apo B-100 mRNA levels remained the same in cells treated with or without the agent. In summary, these observations show that CGS 23425 decreases the levels of apo B-100 in rats. This action of CGS 23425 involves apo B-100 mRNA editing activity.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| 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) | 0.000 | 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.
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