Plasticity of Vagal Origin: Identification and Characterization of a Novel Form of Neural Plasticity in Respiratory Motor Control
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Abstract
In anesthetized, spontaneously breathing adult Sprague Dawley rats I examined the mechanisms by which repeated obstructive apneas trigger a novel form of upper airway respiratory motor plasticity. Based on four specific research aims, the following conclusions were reached: \n1.\tRepeated obstructive apneas elicited plasticity of upper airway motor outflow that was measured as a long-term (> 1 hour) enhancement of inspiratory genioglossus (tongue) muscle tone. Diaphragm muscle activity that served as an index of spinal motor outflow remained unchanged. Airway occlusions triggered upper airway motor plasticity via repeated modulation of vagally-mediated feedback. This form of plasticity required α1-noradrenergic receptor activation at the hypoglossal motor pool. \n2.\tα1-noradrenergic receptor activation at the hypoglossal motor pool was required for both initiation and maintenance (after apneas) of apnea-induced upper airway motor plasticity. \n3.\tActivation of neurotrophin-mediated signalling was necessary for eliciting apnea-induced upper airway motor plasticity. In fact, activation of neurotrophin cellular machinery in hypoglossal motoneurons in turn was sufficient for triggering long-lasting enhancements of genioglossus muscle tone. In addition, neurotrophin-induced motor plasticity requires persistent noradrenergic neuromodulation because it was rapidly reversed by antagonism of α1-noradrenergic receptors at the hypoglossal motor pool. This finding indicates that there exists a cooperative “cross-talk” between neurotrophic and noradrenergic-mediated mechanisms and that the two act synergistically in the manifestation of apnea-induced respiratory motor plasticity. \n4.\tSleep loss as experienced in disease conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea mitigated the expression of apnea-induced respiratory motor plasticity.
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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 |
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| 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 | 0.001 |
| 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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