The Regulation of Catecholamine Biosynthesis by the Gas Transmitters Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen Sulfide
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The gas transmitters nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) play important roles in physiological regulation, including adrenal function. Among them, only NO has been directly implicated in controlling catecholamine biosynthesis. This study examined whether CO and H2S exert similar effects by treating PC12 cells with a CO donor (CORM-2) or an H2S donor (NaHS), with or without glucocorticoid stimulation. Gene expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (Th), dopamine β-hydroxylase (Dbh), and phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (Pnmt) was assessed by RT-qPCR, and catecholamine release was measured by ELISA. We found that exogenous CO decreased Th and Dbh expression, attenuated glucocorticoid-induced upregulation of catecholamine biosynthesis genes, and differentially modulated dopamine and norepinephrine release. In contrast, exogenous H2S treatment had no significant effect. These findings identify CO as a novel regulator of catecholamine biosynthesis and highlight important differences among gas transmitters in stress-related signaling.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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