Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• TFEB deficiency attenuates mitochondrial degradation upon brown adipose tissue whitening at thermoneutrality.

  PMID 33516944 · PMC7903014 · Molecular metabolism · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  BAT whitening at thermoneutrality is associated with TFEB-dependent mitochondrial degradation.

  bat subscapular tfeb-bat-ko metabolically qrt-pcr western immunohistochemistry

• Purinergic adipocyte-macrophage crosstalk promotes degeneration of thermogenic brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 41261284 · PMC12715258 · EMBO reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Imbalanced sympathetic/thermogenic activation (via UCP1 deficiency or pharmacological futile thermogenesis) causes BAT inflammation, fibrosis and degeneration

  bat wild-type brown histology qrt-pcr norepinephrine

• Evolutionary history of the UCP gene family: gene duplication and selection.

  PMID 18980678 · PMC2584656 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The UCP gene family arose through two ancestral gene duplications early in vertebrate evolution, producing the UCP1, UCP2 and UCP3 lineages.

  vertebrate ucp human-mouse ucp1 sequence phylogenetic gene

• Brown adipose tissue lipoprotein and glucose disposal is not determined by thermogenesis in uncoupling protein 1-deficient mice.

  PMID 32769145 · PMC7604721 · Journal of lipid research · 2020 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Glucose and lipoprotein handling by thermogenic adipose tissue does not necessarily reflect UCP1-dependent thermogenic activity

  bat thermogenic radiolabeled thermogenic

• Single-nucleus mRNA-sequencing reveals dynamics of lipogenic and thermogenic adipocyte populations in murine brown adipose tissue in response to cold exposure.

  PMID 40945691 · PMC12506565 · Molecular metabolism · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  snRNA-seq of murine BAT identifies seven distinct brown adipocyte subtypes with distinct metabolic profiles, part of a 21-cell-type atlas.

  interscapular ibat bat single-nucleus qpcr western

• Irisin ameliorates obesity and insulin resistance via adipose tissue IL-33 and regulatory T cells.

  PMID 41933175 · PMC13052164 · Nature metabolism · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Irisin modulates adipose tissue inflammation by increasing IL-33 production and preserving ST2+ regulatory T cells in white adipose tissues, thereby improving obesity and glucose intolerance.

  4-week-old hfd-fed bat iwat aav8-mediated body intraperitoneal

• The cold-induced lipokine 12,13-diHOME promotes fatty acid transport into brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 28346411 · PMC5699924 · Nature medicine · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  12,13-diHOME is a cold-induced lipokine that stimulates BAT activity

  plasma bat serum mice lc-ms correlation 18f-fdg

• Brown fat activation reduces hypercholesterolaemia and protects from atherosclerosis development.

  PMID 25754609 · PMC4366535 · Nature communications · 2015 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  β3-AR agonist-mediated BAT activation reduces plasma triglycerides and cholesterol and protects against atherosclerosis development in APOE*3-Leiden.CETP mice.

  e3l.cetp interscapular liver aortic indirect histology plasma

• Effects of Pharmacological Thermogenic Adipocyte Activation on Metabolism and Atherosclerotic Plaque Regression.

  PMID 30813320 · PMC6412269 · Nutrients · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Chronic dietary CL316,243 treatment reduces adiposity and enhances body weight loss independent of food intake in LDLR-deficient mice

  ldlr-deficient bat ingwat liver body histology quantitative

• Brown adipose tissue thermogenic adaptation requires Nrf1-mediated proteasomal activity.

  PMID 29400713 · PMC5839993 · Nature medicine · 2018 · 8 claims · 10 setups

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  Cold adaptation increases proteasomal activity in BAT, which is required for non-shivering thermogenesis

  bat body adipocytes mitochondria proteasomal core qpcr

• Endogenous Fatty Acid Synthesis Drives Brown Adipose Tissue Involution.

  PMID 33440156 · PMC8240962 · Cell reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Endogenous fatty acid synthesis (DNL), regulated by ChREBP, is the central driver of BAT whitening/involution at thermoneutrality.

  bat fatty lipidomics qpcr