Treatment of MCPT8<sup>DTR</sup> mice with high‐ or low‐dose diphtheria toxin leads to differential depletion of basophils and granulocyte‐macrophage progenitors
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Basophils have been recently recognized to play important roles in type 2 immune responses during allergies and parasitic infection, largely due to the development of novel tools for the in vivo study of these cells. As such, the genetically‐engineered MCPT8 DTR mouse line has been used to specifically deplete basophils following treatment with diphtheria toxin (DT). In this study, we showed that DT‐injected MCPT8 DTR mice exhibited a striking decrease of eosinophils and neutrophils in skin when subjected to a hapten fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)‐induced allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) experimental protocol. Unexpectedly, we found that loss of skin eosinophils and neutrophils was not due to a lack of basophil‐mediated recruitment, as DT injection caused a systemic reduction of eosinophils and neutrophils in MCPT8 DTR mice in a time‐dependent manner. Furthermore, we found that hematopoietic stem‐cell‐derived granulocyte‐macrophage progenitors (GMPs) expressed MCPT8 gene, and that these cells were depleted upon DT injection. Finally, we optimized a protocol in which a low‐dose DT achieved a better specificity for depleting basophils, but not GMPs, in MCPT8 DTR mice, and demonstrate that basophils do not play a major role in recruiting eosinophils and neutrophils to ACD skin. These data provide new and valuable information about functional studies of basophils.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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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