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Record W4405431108 · doi:10.1139/cjz-2024-0144

Oral β-GPA induces daily torpor in the mouse

2024· article· en· W4405431108 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Eliza Ann Jansujwicz, Steven J. Swoap

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Zoology · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCongenital heart defects research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTorporBiologyInternal medicineEndocrinologyZoologyThermoregulation

Abstract

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In response to caloric deficit and a cool environment, mice ( Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758) employ daily torpor, a physiological state characterized by metabolic rate depression and bradycardia, followed by a decrease in body temperature. Although some heat is generated during arousal from torpor via uncoupling-protein 1 (UCP1)-dependent activity, there is also evidence of UCP1-independent mechanisms. We hypothesized that mice utilize futile creatine cycling as a UCP1-independent mechanism for generating heat during arousal from torpor, and thus interference with this cycle would result in longer arousal times. β-Guanidinopropionic acid (β-GPA), a creatine analog shown to decrease cellular creatine levels, was used to assess the role of the futile creatine cycle in arousal from torpor. Mice consuming a standard 1% β-GPA diet lost body weight and, unexpectedly, experienced drops in body temperature that appear “torpor-like” in nature. Behavioral (body position) and physiological (body temperature dynamics, heart rate dynamics and variability, surface tail temperature) assessments were used to distinguish between torpor-like bouts induced by 1% β-GPA feeding and natural torpor. Our analysis suggests that the torpor-like bouts induced during feeding of 1% β-GPA should be considered daily torpor. Contrary to our initial hypothesis, the rate of arousal from these bouts was not significantly affected by β-GPA treatment. Still, the utilization of torpor by mice in a fed state is an unusual finding, and one of the few cases where food consumption does not inhibit daily torpor in the mouse.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.265 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2024
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