Bibliographic record
Abstract
Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) was discovered as the main mediator of humoral hypercalcemia associated with malignancy but is now known to be expressed by a variety of normal fetal and adult tissues. The amino-terminal region of PTHrP reveals limited but significant homology with parathyroid hormone (PTH), resulting in the interaction of either peptide with a common seven-transmembrane spanning G-protein linked receptor termed the PTH/PTHrP receptor. Targeted inactivation of PTHrP and its receptor in mice has established a critical role for this signaling pathway in chondrocyte biology and endochondral bone formation. Animals homozygous for the targeted alleles demonstrate marked skeletal deformities arising from impaired chondrocyte proliferation, premature differentiation and accelerated apoptosis. The complex processes resulting in normal endochondral bone development involve additional factors such as the hedgehog signaling pathway with which PTHrP interacts. PTHrP, like PTH, also binds to receptors on cells of the osteoblast lineage resulting in enhanced bone formation and also, indirectly, augmented osteoclastic bone resorption. The marked premature osteoporosis observed in mice heterozygous for the disrupted Pthrp allele also points to a crucial role for the protein in the maintenance of the adult skeleton. Further studies into this process are likely to reveal new facets of the pathogenesis underlying a variety of metabolic bone diseases and potentially point to new directions for therapeutic interventions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.005 |
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".