Enlargement of the Nerve Fibers of Silenced Lumbosacral Motoneurons in Cats
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Whether neuromuscular activity influences the size of motor nerves is controversial. All neuromuscular activity in cat hindlimbs was eliminated by spinal cord isolation (SCI), namely, spinal cord transection above and below the medial gastrocnemius (MG) and soleus (SOL) motoneuron pools and L5-S3 dorsal root transection. MG, SOL and sural (SUR) nerves were removed for size measurements, eight months after SCI surgery and from age-matched control cats. Nerve fiber number, the linear relationship between axon size and myelin thickness, and the bimodal distributions of nerve fiber area and diameter were maintained in all three nerves after SCI. The distributions of myelinated sensory fibers were unchanged in SUR nerves in contrast to the myelinated motor fibers in the MG and SOL nerves that were significantly larger. These findings provide evidence that all lumbar motoneurons survive SCI and that their nerve fibers enlarge. Thus, motor nerve fiber size in addition to the properties of the motoneurons and their muscle fibers is dynamic, responding to neuromuscular activity.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".