Modulation of cytosolic phospholipase A2 by PPAR activators in human preadipocytes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2)) is responsible for the release of arachidonic acid, a precursor for eicosanoid biosynthesis, from cellular phospholipids. The objective of this study is to examine the regulation of cPLA(2) by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) activators in preadipocyte SW872 (SW) cells. PPAR belong to the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors that heterodimerize with the retinoid X receptor. In this study, the presence of both PPARalpha and PPARgamma was confirmed in SW cells by positive identification of their mRNA in the cellular homogenate. Clofibrate, a PPARalpha activator, caused an enhancement of ionophore A-23187-induced arachidonate release in SW cells. This increase resulted from an enhancement of cPLA(2) activity, which was caused by an increase in enzyme protein. Clofibrate at lower concentrations (10-200 microM) produced increases in the mRNA levels of cPLA(2) in a dose-response manner. At higher concentrations (>400 microM), clofibrate treatment resulted in the attenuation of the cPLA(2) mRNA level and protein expression. We postulate that clofibrate, acting through the PPARalpha, caused an induction in the transcription of cPLA(2) gene, which led to an increase in the cPLA(2) protein. The observed increase in arachidonate release in SW cells appeared to be a direct result of the enhanced cPLA(2) 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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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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