NCX1.1 and NSCCs participate in PDGF‐BB mediated cardiac myofibroblast migration and contraction
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Abstract
Platelet‐derived growth factor (PDGF) is elevated in plasma of post‐myocardial infarct (MI) patients after MI. Participation of hypersynthetic and contractile cardiac myofibroblasts in post‐MI heart is critical for infarct scar formation and to remodeling of the damaged ventricle. The role of intracellular calcium handling in cardiac myofibroblasts as a modulator of cellular motility and contraction is unexplored, and we report on our investigation of NCX and NSCC as putative regulators of myofibroblast motility and contractility. Primary cultures of myofibroblasts and pharmacological NCX or NSCC (7.5 uM KB‐R7943 and 10 uM gadolinium (Gd 3+ ), respectively) inhibitors were applied to Transwell plates (Costar) in the presence of PDGF‐BB (50 ng/ml ‐ 24 h treatment). Collagen gel deformation assays were used to estimate cell contraction by seeding cells on pre‐formed collagen type II gels; gel contraction was analyzed at 24 h using IDL software based analysis. Immunoflouresence was used to determine expression of α‐SMA, SMemb, and NCX1.1 in cultured cells. Both motility and contraction of PDGF‐BB stimulated cells are sensitive to KB‐R7943 treatment in cells expressing NCX1.1 while Gd 3+ treatment was associated only with decreased motility of cells. Thus pharmacological inhibition of NCX1.1 concomitantly inhibits myofibroblast motility and contraction responses. We conclude that plasmalemmal Ca handling is important in PDGF‐BB mediated cardiac myofibroblast motility and function, and that the activation of specific proteins is an important determinant of downstream responses. Supported by the CIHR.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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)
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 teacher head, 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".