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Record W4406827307 · doi:10.1177/0271678x251314683

Task activation results in regional <sup>13</sup> C-lactate signal increase in the human brain

2025· article· en· W4406827307 on OpenAlexaff
Biranavan Uthayakumar, Nicole Cappelletto, Nadia Bragagnolo, Albert P. Chen, Nathan Ma, William J. Perks, Ruby Endre, Fred Tam, Simon J. Graham, Chris Heyn, Kayvan R. Keshari, Hany Soliman, Charles H. Cunningham

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicAdvanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Canadian institutionsHealth Sciences CentreSunnybrook HospitalUniversity of TorontoSunnybrook Health Science Centre
FundersNational Institute of Biomedical Imaging and BioengineeringNational Cancer Institute
KeywordsMetaboliteBrainstemNuclear magnetic resonanceBicarbonateHuman brainChemistryMedicineEndocrinologyNeuroscienceInternal medicineBiologyBiochemistryPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract Hyperpolarized- 13 C magnetic resonance imaging (HP- 13 C MRI) was used to image changes in 13 C-lactate signal during a visual stimulus condition in comparison to an eyes-closed control condition. Whole-brain 13 C-pyruvate, 13 C-lactate and 13 C-bicarbonate production was imaged in healthy volunteers (N = 6, ages 24–33) for the two conditions using two separate hyperpolarized 13 C-pyruvate injections. BOLD-fMRI scans were used to delineate regions of functional activation. 13 C-metabolite signal was normalized by 13 C-metabolite signal from the brainstem and the percentage change in 13 C-metabolite signal conditions was calculated. A one-way Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed a significant increase in 13 C-lactate in regions of activation when compared to the remainder of the brain ( p = 0.02 ). No significant increase was observed in 13 C-pyruvate signal ( p = 0.11 ) or 13 C-bicarbonate signal ( p = 0.95 ). The results show an increase in 13 C-lactate production in activated regions that is measurable with HP- 13 C MRI.

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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)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
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)0.0050.001

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.288 · 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 designObservational
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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Published2025
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