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Record W4409527429 · doi:10.1139/cjpp-2024-0275

White matter microglia morphological changes with aging in guinea pig offspring born growth restricted

2025· article· en· W4409527429 on OpenAlexafffundvenue
Timothy B. Nunes, Karen Nygard, Marc Courchesne, Shawn N. Whitehead, Bryan S. Richardson, Timothy R.H. Regnault

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Canadian institutionsChildren’s Health Research InstituteWestern University
FundersLondon Health Sciences CentreChildren Neurodevelopmental Disorders Network
KeywordsOffspringWhite matterBiologyCorpus callosumEndocrinologyMicrogliaInternal medicineExternal capsuleFetusGuinea pigPregnancyInternal capsuleAnatomyMedicineImmunologyInflammation

Abstract

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Fetal growth restriction is implicated in the programming of later-life neurodegeneration. We hypothesized that growth-restricted offspring would show accelerated changes to microglial white matter morphology, relative to controls. Control guinea pig sows were fed ad libitum, while maternal nutrient restriction sows received 70% of control diet switched to 90% from mid-gestation. Offspring were sacrificed at ∼26 days (neonate) or ∼110 days (adult) postpartum. Coronal brain sections from the frontal cortex were subject to IBA1 staining for microglial detection and analyzed by machine learning software. At birth, total body weight of growth-restricted offspring was reduced relative to control ( p < 0.0001) with postnatal catch-up growth observed. Microglial density was reduced in the corpus callosum of control ( p < 0.05) and growth-restricted ( p = 0.13) adults, relative to neonates. Adults from both groups showed greater IBA1-positive area in the cingulum and periventricular white matter ( p < 0.05) and increased microglial fractal dimension in the corpus callosum ( p < 0.10) and periventricular white matter ( p < 0.05), relative to neonates. At the time points studied, we report age-related changes in white matter microglial morphology. However, maternal nutrient restriction leading to fetal growth restriction in guinea pigs does not appear to exacerbate these white matter microglia morphological changes as a marker for later-life neurodegeneration.

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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: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

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 integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.239 · 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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