Myeloprotection with activated carbon in doxorubicin-treated rats
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Abstract
Chemotherapy can often cause a variety of side effects including bone marrow (BM) suppression, termed as myelosuppression. Accordingly, facile and effective management of chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression is currently a pivotal task for experimental pathologists and oncologists. Here, we chose to use activated carbon (AC) with an extensive surface area for studying its possible protective effectiveness with respect to BM in doxorubicin (DOX)-treated rats. Spherical AC with an extended surface area up to 4490 m 2 /g was prepared for per os (p/o) delivery, whereas for intraperitoneal (i/p) delivery we used the powdered form of AC that was derived from the aforementioned spherical AC. During the monthly treatment of animals with AC and DOX these two components were delivered alternately (not in the same day). After treatment, BM cells were isolated from femurs of sacrificed animals, stained with acridine orange (AO) and analyzed by flow cytometry. Regardless of the route of AC delivery (p/o or i/p), apparent myeloprotection with a possible regenerative effect was observed in animals that received DOX, as evidenced by recovery of the populations of total nucleated cells (TNC) and polychromatic (immature) erythrocytes accompanied by a considerable reduction of the number of apoptotic/dead cells among TNC (≤2.0%). Moreover, as a result of AC administrations, there was a significant increase of AO green and far-red fluorescence intensities in the population of TNC, which is suggestive of the ongoing conformational changes in chromatin and DNA associated with cell recovery and proliferation. Thus, AC preparations under the present experimental conditions can effectively tackle DOX-induced myelosuppression via mechanisms not necessarily associated with adsorptive detoxification.
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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.
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