Vardenafil ameliorates immunologic- and non-immunologic-induced allergic reactions
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Abstract
Cyclic nucleotides, such as cAMP and cGMP, play a protective role in the modulation of the activity of some inflammatory cells in allergic disorders. Their intracellular concentrations are tightly regulated by the phosphodiesterases (PDEs). The protective efficacy of the selective PDE5 inhibitor vardenafil against mast-cell-mediated allergic reactions in murine models has been investigated. Compound 48/80 was used as a direct mast cell degranulator to induce anaphylaxis. Vardenafil (administered orally at 5, 10, 20, 40, and 80 mg/kg body mass) significantly (P < 0.05, n = 12) increased protection against compound-48/80-induced anaphylaxis in mice to 33.33%, 66.67%, 66.67%, 83.33%, and 66.67% respectively compared with the control (vehicle). In passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) in rats, vardenafil (10 mg/kg body mass) significantly (P < 0.05, n = 6) decreased Evans' blue dye extravasation (4.6-fold). Pre-incubation of isolated rat peritoneal mast cells (RPMCs) with vardenafil (10 and 100 μmol/L) significantly (P < 0.05, n = 6) reduced compound-48/80-induced histamine release by 2.8- and 3-fold, respectively. Moreover, histamine release by immunogenic stimulation of sensitized RPMCs by egg albumin significantly declined following pre-incubation with vardenafil (10 and 100 μmol/L) by 1.94- and 1.99-fold, respectively. In conclusion, inhibition of PDE5 by vardenafil ameliorated immunologic and non-immunologic mast-cell-mediated allergic reactions and reduced histamine release, providing evidence for the potential anti-allergic properties of vardenafil.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".