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Record W7019419271

The genetic control of airway responsiveness and the effect of resiquimod treatment on allergic asthma

2010· dissertation· en· W7019419271 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2010
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGenerational Differences and Trends
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchAmerican Asthma Foundation
KeywordsOvalbuminImmune systemAsthmaReceptorAirwayCytokineImmunoglobulin EAirway hyperresponsiveness
DOInot available

Abstract

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Asthma is a heterogeneous airway disease caused by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors which result in improper immune responses to innocuous antigens.Toll-like receptors (TLR) are pathogen associated pattern recognition receptors which form homo-or heterodimers which bind specific ligands leading to activation and modulation of immune responses.The present study examined the effect of resiquimod, a synthetic toll-like receptor 7 ligand, on the development of allergic asthma pathology in animal models.Resiquimod treatment of ovalbumin sensitized mice prevented the subsequent development of airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation, increased plasma IgE levels, and both T H 1 and T H 2 cytokine production.This effect was independent of the Mapkapk2 gene but was ineffective in Myd88 knockout mice.A defining feature of asthmatic airways is airway wall remodelling which is characterized by an increase in airway smooth muscle mass, goblet cell hyperplasia, and the deposition of extra-cellular matrix components.The effects of resiquimod treatment on the development of airway remodelling were examined in Brown Norway rats.Resiquimod treatment prevented the increase in airway smooth muscle mass and goblet cell hyperplasia observed in control animals.These effects were associated with a reduction in the number of proliferating airway cells and were preceded by an abrogation of the allergic inflammatory reaction.Employing gene expression microarray analysis, the transcriptome of resiquimod treated, and untreated asthmatic A/J and C57BL/6 mice, was characterized.Asthma induction resulted in the up-regulation of genes involved with the control of cell cycle progression, the complement and coagulation cascades, and chemokine signalling, findings which are consistent with previous reports.Treatment with resiquimod resulted in the normalization of asthma induced genes related to airway remodelling and chemokine signalling.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.526
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.253 · 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