Intracranial pressure accommodation is impaired by blocking pathways leading to extracranial lymphatics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tracer studies indicate that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) transport can occur through the cribriform plate into the nasal submucosa, where it is absorbed by cervical lymphatics. We tested the hypothesis that sealing the cribriform plate extracranially would impair the ability of the CSF pressure-regulating systems to compensate for volume infusions. Sheep were challenged with constant flow or constant pressure infusions of artificial CSF into the CSF compartment before and after the nasal mucosal side of the cribriform plate was sealed. With both infusion protocols, the intracranial pressure (ICP) vs. flow rate relationships were shifted significantly to the left when the cribriform plate was blocked. This indicated that obstruction of the cribriform plate reduced CSF clearance. Sham surgical procedures had no significant effects. Estimates of the proportional flow through cribriform and noncribriform routes suggested that cranial CSF absorption occurred primarily through the cribriform plate at low ICPs. Additional drainage sites (arachnoid villi or other lymphatic pathways) appeared to be recruited only when intracranial pressures were elevated. These data challenge the conventional view that CSF is absorbed principally via arachnoid villi and provide further support for the existence of several anatomically distinct cranial CSF transport pathways.
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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) | 0.002 | 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".