IDENTIFICATION, ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF OVINE BRONCHIOLOALVEOLAR PROGENITORS
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bronchioloalveolar stem cells located at the bronchiolar/alveolar junction may be involved inembryogenesis or regeneration. These cells have not yet been described in large animals, and they mayenable the development of new therapeutics to treat acute or chronic lung disease. In this study, weaimed to establish the presence of bronchioloalveolar stem cells in ovine lungs and to characterize theirstemness properties. Lung cells were studied using immunohistochemistry on frozen sections of the lung,and immunocytochemistry and flow cytometry were conducted on derived cells. The stem cells wereidentified by co-expression of CCSP, SP-C and the CD34 hematopoietic stem-cell marker. A minorpopulation of CD34pos/SP-Cpos/CCSPpos cells (0.33% ± 0.31) was present ex vivo in cell suspensions fromdissociated lungs. Using CD34 magnetic positive cell sorting, undifferentiated SP-Cpos/CCSPpos cellswere purified (>80%) and maintained in culture. Using synthetic media and various extracellular matrixes,SP-Cpos/CCSPpos cells differentiated into either Clara cells or alveolar epithelial type-II cells. Furthermore,bronchioloalveolar stem cells obtained ex vivo and in vitro expressed the stem cell-specific genesNANOG, OCT4 and BMI1. We report for the first time in a large animal the existence ofbronchioloalveolar stem cells with dual differentiation potential and the expression of stem cell-specificgenes.
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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 | 0.003 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 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".