The Remaining Conundrum of the Role of the Na+/H+ Exchanger Isoform 1 (NHE1) in Cardiac Physiology and Pathology: Can It Be Rectified?
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Abstract
exchanger (NHE) is a family of ubiquitous membrane proteins present in humans. Isoform one (NHE1) is present on the plasma membrane and regulates intracellular pH by removal of one intracellular proton in exchange for one extracellular sodium thus functioning as an electroneutral process. Human NHE1 has a 500 amino acid membrane domain plus a C-terminal 315 amino acid, regulatory cytosolic tail. It is regulated through a cytosolic regulatory C-terminal tail which is subject to phosphorylation and is modulated by proteins and lipids. Substantial evidence has implicated NHE1 activity in both myocardial ischemia and reperfusion damage and myocardial remodeling resulting in heart failure. Experimental data show excellent cardioprotection with NHE1 inhibitors although results from clinical results have been mixed. In cardiac surgery patients receiving the NHE1 inhibitor cariporide, subgroups showed beneficial effects of treatment. However, in one trial this was associated with a significantly increased incidence of ischemic strokes. This likely reflected both inappropriate dosing regimens as well as overly high drug doses. We suggest that further progress towards NHE1 inhibition as a treatment for cardiovascular disease is warranted through the development of novel compounds to inhibit NHE1 that are structurally different than those previously used in compromised clinical trials. Some novel pyrazinoyl guanidine inhibitors of NHE1 are already in development and the recent elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of the NHE1 protein and identity of the inhibitor binding site may facilitate development. An alternative approach may also be to control the endogenous regulation of activity of NHE1, which is activated in disease.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.003 |
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.
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".