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).

• Immunopathogenic interaction of environmental triggers and genetic susceptibility in diabetes: is epigenetics the missing link?

  PMID 19033405 · PMC2584121 · Diabetes · 2008 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Epigenetic modification of histones and DNA provides a plausible common mechanism linking environmental triggers to genetic susceptibility regions in autoimmune type 1 diabetes.

  lymphocytes genetic nonobese chip-on-chip bioinformatic congenic

• The TREM2-APOE Pathway Drives the Transcriptional Phenotype of Dysfunctional Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

  PMID 28930663 · PMC5719893 · Immunity · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A common APOE-dependent microglial molecular signature (MGnD) — loss of homeostatic genes plus induction of inflammatory genes with Apoe among the most upregulated — occurs in ALS, MS and AD mouse models and around neuritic Aβ-plaques in human AD brain.

  facs-isolated fcrls+ sorted app-ps1 nanostring sequencing quantitative

• An engineered tumor organoid model reveals cellular identity and signaling trajectories underlying SFPQ-TFE3 driven translocation RCC.

  PMID 40463960 · PMC12131257 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SFPQ-TFE3 expression is sufficient to transform normal kidney epithelial tubuloids into tRCC

  kidney tubuloids immunodeficient tub rt-qpcr western histology

• 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

• PDGFRA defines the mesenchymal stem cell Kaposi's sarcoma progenitors by enabling KSHV oncogenesis in an angiogenic environment.

  PMID 31881074 · PMC6980685 · PLoS pathogens · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PDGFRA(+)/SCA-1(+) bone marrow-derived MSCs (Pα(+)S MSCs) are KS spindle-cell progenitors

  bone kshv-infected k-pα nude flow kshv immunofluorescence

• Distinct sympathetic projections to brown fat regulate thermogenesis and glucose tolerance.

  PMID 41559445 · PMC12945688 · Nature metabolism · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Distinct sympathetic neuron subpopulations in the stellate ganglion (SG) innervating iBAT parenchyma versus its vasculature mediate separable functions of the depot.

  th-cre awake ibat plasma retrograde chemogenetic indirect

• MACanalyzeR scRNAseq analysis tool reveals PPARγ(HIGH)/GDF15(HIGH) lipid-associated macrophages facilitate thermogenic expansion in BAT.

  PMID 40450001 · PMC12126529 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MACanalyzeR is a novel computational scRNAseq framework (with FoamSpotteR, MacPolarizeR, and PathAnalyzeR modules) for comprehensive monocyte/macrophage metabolic and phenotypic profiling

  bat stromal paraffin-embedded aortic bulk proteomics scrnaseq

• Cancer genomics identifies regulatory gene networks associated with the transition from dysplasia to advanced lung adenocarcinomas induced by c-Raf-1.

  PMID 19812696 · PMC2754338 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Comparison of tumor, transgenic, and non-transgenic lung cells reveals distinct and overlapping regulatory gene networks associated with progression to adenocarcinoma.

  lung gene differentially significantly laser histology principal

• Lineage commitment of dermal fibroblast progenitors is controlled by Kdm6b-mediated chromatin demethylation.

  PMID 37602956 · PMC10548174 · The EMBO journal · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  E14.5 DFPs have a repressed transcriptional profile marked by high H3K27me3 and inaccessible chromatin at lineage-specific genes

  skin dermal single-cell chamber chip-seq

• Sources of variability and effect of experimental approach on expression profiling data interpretation.

  PMID 11936955 · PMC65691 · BMC bioinformatics · 2002 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Intra-patient tissue heterogeneity (different regions of the same biopsy) is often the greatest source of variability in expression profiling

  skeletal muscle spleen myogenic affymetrix duplicate unsupervised

• The identification of a Distinct Astrocyte Subtype that Diminishes in Alzheimer's Disease.

  PMID 38502590 · PMC11567244 · Aging and disease · 2024 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A distinct astrocyte subpopulation marked by low GFAP, plus AQP4 and CD63 expression, exists in normal brain but is diminished in AD samples in both human and mouse.

  prefrontal snrna-seq frontal brain single-nuclei gene cell-cell

• Vascular adhesion protein-1 defines a unique subpopulation of human hematopoietic stem cells and regulates their proliferation.

  PMID 34719737 · PMC8629906 · Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  VAP-1 is expressed on a subset of human HSC and on bone marrow vasculature, forming a hematogenic niche.

  facs-sorted sorted cd34+ bulk single-cell flow

• Global chromatin accessibility profiling analysis reveals a chronic activation state in aged muscle stem cells.

  PMID 36093058 · PMC9459695 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PFA-perfusion-based isolation preserves the true in vivo chromatin accessibility state, avoiding artifacts caused by tissue dissociation-induced activation

  quiescent satellite regenerating situ atac-seq rna-seq motif

• Co-circulation and evolution of polioviruses and species C enteroviruses in a district of Madagascar.

  PMID 18085822 · PMC2134956 · PLoS pathogens · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Madagascar VDPVs are intertypic/interspecies recombinants with Sabin 2-derived sequence in the 5'-half of the genome and HEV-C-derived sequence in the 3'-half

  vdpv mad04 pvr-tg21 hep-2c rt-pcr monoclonal plaque

• Genetic determinants of virulence in pathogenic lineage 2 West Nile virus strains.

  PMID 18258114 · PMC2600181 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The nonstructural genes, especially NS5, are the most variable regions between highly and less neuroinvasive lineage 2 WNV strains

  lineage mice patients complete phylogenetic nucleotide

• De novo identification of CD4(+) T cell epitopes.

  PMID 38658646 · PMC11093748 · Nature methods · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SABR-IIs (chimeric receptors linking a covalently attached peptide-MHC-II to CD28-CD3ζ signaling domains) present epitopes to CD4+ T cells and induce a readable NFAT-GFP/CD69 signal upon cognate TCR recognition

  nfat-gfp hla-dq8 5kc daudi nfat-gfp co-incubation species

• A robust approach to identifying tissue-specific gene expression regulatory variants using personalized human induced pluripotent stem cells.

  PMID 19911041 · PMC2766639 · PLoS genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Padlock probes combined with high-throughput sequencing enable accurate, quantitative, low-bias digital RNA allelotyping of allele-specific expression

  genomic pgp1 skin fibroblasts padlock quantitative gene