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Record W4410662848 · doi:10.1080/03008207.2025.2507239

Response of cartilage explants to LPS cultured in normoxic and hypoxic conditions is modulated by Spirulina: implications for exercise recovery in vivo

2025· article· en· W4410662848 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueConnective Tissue Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicExercise and Physiological Responses
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIn vivoSpirulina (dietary supplement)Explant cultureHypoxia (environmental)ChemistryCartilageIn vitroCell biologyEndocrinologyInternal medicineBiologyMedicineBiochemistryAnatomyOxygenBiotechnology

Abstract

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Exercise-induced inflammation and free radical production are crucial for recovery, yet excess inflammation poses risks to equine athletes, leading to conditions like arthritis. Spirulina, recognized for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, could mitigate degenerative diseases without hindering post-exercise recovery. This study investigates Spirulina’s direct impact on cartilage responses to LPS-induced inflammation in normoxic and hypoxic conditions, focusing on outcomes relevant to cartilage matrix turnover and exercise-induced inflammation. Spirulina underwent simulated digestion and liver metabolism, yielding a simulated biological extract (SPsim). In the normoxic experiment, porcine cartilage explants were cultured with SPsim (0, 30, or 90 μg/mL) for 72 h after 24 h in basal media, with LPS (0 or 10 μg/mL) added for the final 48 h. The hypoxic experiment mirrored this, with explants transferred to a hypoxia chamber for the final 48 h. Media samples collected at 0, 24, and 48 h were analyzed for biomarkers related to cartilage turnover (GAG), and exercise-induced inflammation (IL-6 and NO). Cell viability, assessed by live:dead staining, remained > 97% and unaffected by oxygen tension. In normoxic conditions, SPsim (30 μg/mL) significantly reduced GAG release at 48 h. Under hypoxia, SPsim (30 and 90 μg/mL) inhibited LPS-induced GAG release. SPsim (90 μg/mL) increased IL-6 and NO production in LPS-stimulated explants in normoxia, and a similar effect was observed with the lower SPsim dose (30 μg/mL) in hypoxic conditions. These results suggest that Spirulina may enhance cartilage mediators, potentially promoting healthy cartilage turnover during exercise recovery.

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Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmano category
Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Bench or experimentallow
gptno category
Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Bench or experimentallow
models agreeAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.135
Threshold uncertainty score0.482

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
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 head0.064
GPT teacher head0.434
Teacher spread0.370 · 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