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Record W4415936183 · doi:10.1101/2025.11.04.686303

The Role of Fetuin-A on the Attachment and Proliferation of Osteoblast-like Cells on Model Gold Surfaces

2025· preprint· W4415936183 on OpenAlexafffund
Alessandra Merlo, Jesper Medin, Shane Scott, Andreas Dahlin, Kathryn Grandfield, Kyla N. Sask

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Language
FieldEngineering
TopicBone Tissue Engineering Materials
Canadian institutionsBrockhouse Institute for Materials ResearchMcMaster University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMitacsCanada Research ChairsMcMaster University
KeywordsQuartz crystal microbalanceFibronectinProtein adsorptionAdsorptionCell adhesionAdhesionCellCell growth

Abstract

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Fetuin-A is a plasma protein of interest for bone-interfacing applications because of its role in mineralization processes through calcium/phosphate ion-binding capabilities. However, the role of fetuin A in the initial stages of cellular interaction with biomaterials and the mechanisms involved are not fully clear. This work investigated the response of osteoblast-like Saos-2 cells to model gold substrates presenting preadsorbed fetuin-A as a surface modification to determine the role of the protein in cell attachment and proliferation. Correlative quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D), surface plasmon resonance, and radiolabeling confirmed that fetuin-A adsorbed on model surfaces in similar quantities compared to serum albumin but formed a less packed layer with increased water entrapment. Cells attached to gold surfaces presenting preadsorbed fetuin-A displayed morphological characteristics similar to those with preadsorbed albumin with lower average surface area and maximum axis compared to the fibronectin control. Over 3 days, fetuin-A exhibited lower cellular proliferation compared to the fibronectin control, likely correlated to the decrease in cellular metabolism observed at the same time point, and persisted over 7 days. These results provide insight into the role of adsorbed fetuin-A for bone-interfacing implant applications, suggesting that the preadsorption of the protein alone is not sufficient to promote early stages of osseointegration.

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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 score0.003
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 integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.197
Teacher spread0.188 · 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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