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Record W3165762224

INVESTIGATING THE PARAMETERS OF PRE-/POST-CONDITIONING ON HUMAN-DERIVED CANCER CELLS

2019· dissertation· en· W3165762224 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Jason Cohen

Bibliographic record

VenueMacSphere (McMaster University) · 2019
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
TopicChemical Reactions and Isotopes
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Research ChairsBruce PowerMcMaster University
KeywordsConditioningCancerBiologyCancer researchComputational biologyMedicineMathematicsInternal medicineStatistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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There is a large amount of interest and research currently going into studying the effects of low dose radiation on humans, and bridging the gap with the data from the effects of high dose radiation. Much work is to be done to understand low dose exposures such as from medical treatments and those who work with or around radiation. Two popular and widely known examples of low-dose phenomena are the radiation induced bystander effects and the radioadaptive response (RAR). This research involves the study of the impact of a low dose of radiation that is administered several hours after a high – even fatal – dose is given, which contrasts the traditional RAR where a low priming dose is given before a high dose and can lead to increased cell survival. Many different parameters were checked to see if cell survival can be enhanced or diminished depending on the stage of the cell cycle, cell growth conditions, and cell profiling differences in protein function (namely the TP53 gene). Additionally, the post-conditioning response was contrasted to see if it was possible to see any effects from the newly emerging area of bystander signalling, UV BioPhotons, would be present in cell lines that either did or did not exhibit a post-conditioning effect. It was shown that post-conditioning has a protective effect on survival of the cells in certain dose ranges and certain cell lines. The post-conditioning effect also appears to be stronger in magnitude than the classic RAR. No relationship between gamma-induced biophoton signalling and post-conditioning was observed, nor is it certain whether an acute gamma-field can induce significant UV biophoton damage. This thesis is aimed to explore the various parameters by which post-conditioning effects occur on various Human cancers.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.187
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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)0.0500.000

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 head0.071
GPT teacher head0.358
Teacher spread0.287 · 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.

Study designBench or experimental
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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Published2019
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