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Record W2984349473 · doi:10.15173/mumj.v16i1.2035

Multiple Sclerosis: Unraveling the Neuropathology and Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration

2019· article· en· W2984349473 on OpenAlexaff
Samantha Visva, John Paul Oliveria

Bibliographic record

VenueMcMaster University Medical Journal · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMultiple Sclerosis Research Studies
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNatalizumabMultiple sclerosisFingolimodMedicineDiseaseNeuropathologyClinical trialAlemtuzumabImmune systemImmunologyBioinformaticsTransplantationPathologyInternal medicineBiology

Abstract

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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating autoimmune disease affecting the central nervous system, and has been the focus of intense research for the past 20 years. A better understanding of immune-related pathogenic mechanisms is necessary for the development of: (1) novel methods to monitor disease progression, (2) earlier diagnoses through unveiling new biomarkers, and (3) the invention of more effective and personalized MS treatments therapies. Several disease modifying treatments (e.g., natalizumab, fingolimod and beta interferons) have been approved for MS; however with no cure, the current treatment paradigm has shifted to the notion of ‘no evident disease activity’. While many of these Food and Drug Administration approved MS treatments have been shown to reduce the number of relapses and lesions, the paradox concerning MS treatments, namely the overuse of T cell activation as a target, necessitates the need for identifying entirely new contributors to disease pathology. MS pathogenesis has been
 associated with many theories, ranging from the release of proinflammatory cytokines from macrophages and microglial cells to B cell-derived demyelinating antibodies. As such, these hypotheses should be considered in addition to the role of T cells when developing novel MS treatment plans and identifying aligning biomarkers. Recently, clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00040482, NCT00342134, and NCT00342134) investigating autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have demonstrated success in MS. Future research should focus on identifying non-invasive biomarkers, such as blood concentrations of miRNAs, as an indication of underlying pathology and to aid in early diagnosis, tracking disease progression and identifying more effective and personalized MS treatments.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.744
Threshold uncertainty score0.687

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.244
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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