Shaping the craniofacial skeleton of Mexican cavefish ( <i>Astyanax mexicanus);</i> Role of Osteoblast and Osteoclast
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Abstract
The vertebrate bony skeleton is remodelled continuously by bone deposition and reabsorption, which is essential for normal development, growth, repair and for the mineral homeostasis. Remodelling of the skeleton usually involves the removal of the bone by osteoclasts and the subsequent formation of new bone by osteoblasts. These remodelling mechanisms can be found in the teleost fish skeleton with special adaptation to the aquatic life. Most of the fish species have teeth in their craniofacial region and replace their dentitions though out the life which lead to continuous bone remodelling activity in the tooth‐bearing bones. The Mexican tetra ( Astyanax mexicanus ), is a small teleost fish that exists as two morphs; sighted and blind cave form. The degeneration of the eyes, result in the characteristics craniofacial phenotype in cavefish. However, little is known about the cellular mechanisms underlying the remodelling activity of the skeleton of this species. This study was designed to identify the cellular interactions during the development of craniofacial skeleton of Mexican cavefish. Histological and whole mount analysis was performed to compare the development of the skeleton in these two morphs. The cavefish showed delayed eruption of teeth in tooth‐bearing bones but has large jaw bones compared to the surface larval fish. Sites of bone resorption in the bony skeleton will be investigated by RNA in situ hybridization and ultrastructural analysis. Live bone staining techniques will be used to identify the pattern of bone deposition. This study will provide insights into the evolution of osteoblastic and osteoclastic cell activity and will highlight the use of this species as a model in mammalian skeletal disorders. Support or Funding Information This research was funded by the University of Manitoba. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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