Mechanisms of Lysophosphatidic Acid–induced DNA Synthesis in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In order to investigate the signal transduction mechanisms of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA)-induced vascular smooth muscle (VSM) DNA synthesis, rat aortic A10 cells were used as an experimental model and [ H]-thymidine incorporation was used as an index of DNA synthesis. LPA caused dose- and time-dependent increase in DNA synthesis in A10 VSM cells. LPA (10 microM) also stimulated the activity of casein kinase II (CKII) in a time-dependent manner. The inhibitors of CKII, daidzein and 5,6-dichlorobenzimidazole riboside, diminished the LPA-induced increase in CKII activity and DNA synthesis. The LPA-stimulated activities of extracellularly regulated kinases (ERK) and p38 kinases as well as the stimulatory effects of LPA on DNA synthesis were blocked by ERK inhibitor, PD98059, and p38 kinase inhibitor, SB203580. The LPA-induced increase in intracellular free Ca and the LPA-induced DNA synthesis were not affected by Ca channel blockers, verapamil and diltiazem, as well as a Ca -dependent protein phosphatase (calcineurin) inhibitor, cyclosporine A. These data suggest that the LPA-induced DNA synthesis in VSM cells may be mediated by a signal transduction mechanism involving CKII, ERK, and p38 K.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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.
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