Editorial: Research and updates in veterinary transfusion medicine
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Abstract
Editorial on the Research Topic Research and updates in veterinary transfusion medicineThe knowledge base in veterinary transfusion medicine grows yearly.This issue supports further development in novel aspects of transfusion in veterinary species.Most advancements in veterinary blood transfusion have been focused on domestic species.Transfusion medicine is in its infancy in other species, and this issue presents transfusion practices in novel species.Evidence-based practices for transfusion are lacking for invertebrates.Gregory, Heniff et al., present a novel serum transfusion technique in the thorny devil stick insect. Gregory, Heniff et al. found that serum, separated from hemolymph collected from donor insects, could be successfully transfused via injection into the abdomen of recipient insects, and described potential transfusion reactions in this species.As the authors note, the thorny devil stick insect is a commonly cared for invertebrate in both research and zoological settings.The protocols detailed in this article could help shape future hemolymph transfusion practices in this and other arthropods.Recently published guidelines regarding pre-transfusion testing in companion animals show the utility of crossmatching in increasing safety of blood transfusion (1).Gregory, Parker et al. explore crossmatching in the development of practical and safe transfusion practices in this endangered pinniped species. While blood types are yet to be defined in the Galapagos sea lion, Gregory, Parker et al. showed that natural antibodies causing transfusion reaction appear to be uncommon in this species.The authors conclude that while pre-transfusion crossmatching is ideal, transfusion could likely proceed safely in an emergency setting when crossmatching is not possible.Transfusion medicine research in large animals, particularly small ruminants, is a relatively new branch of this discipline.Gastrointestinal parasitism commonly results in anemia in goats.Blood transfusion could be a life-saving procedure in this condition.Finding a donor from the herd, however, can be extremely challenging, as anemia from gastrointestinal parasites is often a herd issue.When a donor of the same species cannot Frontiers in Veterinary Science frontiersin.org
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.006 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.033 | 0.029 |
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".