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Hydrogen Sulfide and Visceral Smooth Muscle Contractility

2004· book-chapter· en· W44961399 on OpenAlexaff
Philip K. Moore

Bibliographic record

VenueHumana Press eBooks · 2004
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicSulfur Compounds in Biology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContractilityIleumEndocrinologyInternal medicineVascular smooth muscleMuscle contractionVasodilationNitric oxideBiologyChemistryMedicineSmooth muscle

Abstract

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Whether hydrogen sulfide (H2S) plays a part in the regulation of visceral smooth muscle contractility is not yet known. However, a growing body of evidence suggests this to be the case. For example, cystathione γ-lyase (CSE) occurs in the ileum whereas exogenous H2S relaxes gastrointestinal, urogenital, and uterine smooth muscle preparations at concentrations similar to those found naturally occurring in rat and human blood. The mechanism of the smooth muscle relaxant effect of H2S is also unclear. Although an effect of this gasotransmitter on visceral smooth muscle K+-adenosine triphosphate channels (i.e., similar to what occurs in vascular smooth muscle) cannot be excluded at this stage, the inability of glibenclamide pretreatment to inhibit relaxation of guinea pig ileum to H2S suggests that alternative mechanisms may occur at the cellular level. Recent work suggests that H2S synergizes with nitric oxide in relaxing guinea pig ileum. Interestingly, the possibility that endogenous H2S may regulate ileal smooth muscle contractility, at least in vitro, is suggested by the use of propargylglycine and β3-cyanoalanine, which inhibit CSE enzyme activity and thereby effectively remove the endogenous H2S-mediated smooth muscle relaxant effect. Both drugs cause a time- and dose-dependent augmentation of the response of guinea pig ileum to electrical (field) stimulation. Evaluation of the effect of H2S on visceral smooth muscle is still very much in its infancy, and many more experiments are required before the physiological, pathophysiological, and perhaps even the clinical significance of this gas can be fully determined.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.959
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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 integrity0.0010.000
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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.225 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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