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Record W4404831452 · doi:10.5376/be.2024.14.0020

Screening BVOCs in Cypress Cones to Improve Anxiety and Insomnia and Target Prediction

2024· article· en· W4404831452 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueBiological Evidence · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicSleep and Work-Related Fatigue
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCypressAnxietyInsomniaPsychologyClinical psychologyEnvironmental scienceMedicinePsychiatryBotanyBiology

Abstract

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The Cypress ( Platycladus orientalis  (L.) Franco) cones have a unique aroma and are commonly used in pillow fillings to alleviate anxiety and insomnia. In this study, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was employed to extract and analyze the biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) from Cypress cone shells, identifying a total of 28 components, with terpenoids comprising over 99% of the total. α-Pinene was the predominant component, accounting for 67% of the total content (176.328 μg/g). Target prediction identified significant interactions between 14 BVOCs and 19 protein targets, with (-)-α-Pinene, limonene, bornyl acetate, and 3-carene being potential key components for alleviating anxiety and insomnia. The primary targets were VDR (Vitamin D receptor), AchE (Acetylcholinesterase), CTSD (Cathepsin D), TRPV1 (Transient Receptor Potential Cation Channel Subfamily V Member 1), CNR2 (Cannabinoid receptor 2), and PPARα (Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha), which are mainly involved in neurotransmission and circadian rhythm regulation. Molecular docking simulations showed that the binding of α-Pinene and β-caryophyllene to PPARα and CNR2 proteins was primarily driven by hydrophobic forces, with binding energies ranging from -5.17 to -7.83 kcal/mol, suggesting that these BVOCs might alleviate anxiety and insomnia by influencing related functional proteins. This study reveals the potential mechanisms by which Cypress cone shells may help alleviate anxiety and insomnia.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.294
Threshold uncertainty score0.359

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.334
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it