Mini-review: The role of mast cells in pulmonary hypertension
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Of recent, inflammatory responses, formation of ectopic lymphoid tissue and autoantibodies have been increasingly implicated in the pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension (PH). One of the earliest immune cells detected in PH and implicated in its pathogenesis were mast cells based on their demonstrated abundance in the vicinity of vascular lesions in PH patients, as well as in lungs of animal models of PH. Experimental studies using mast cell stabilizers or mast cell deficient rats in classic PH models provided proofof-principle for the functional relevance of mast cells in the initiation and/or progression of PH and lung vascular remodeling. Yet, the cellular mechanisms by which mast cells contribute to the development of PH and pulmonary vascular remodeling have so far remained largely unclear. Importantly, understanding the downstream effectors by which activated mast cells and their secretome trigger or promote vascular remodeling may lead to the development of novel therapies for PH. Notably, recent work has unveiled a novel interplay between mast cells and the adaptive immune system in PH, in that mast cell-targeted interventions attenuate the formation of tertiary lymphoid tissue in the lung and the formation of autoantibodies. This minireview will focus on the role of mast cells in PH and their possible downstream mechanism.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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)
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".