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).

• Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis.

  PMID 41639447 · PMC12935554 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) induces increased innervation and functional/transcriptional engagement of vagal sensory neurons (VSNs)

  kras-g12d tumour-bearing vagal npy2r-ires-cre whole-mount aav neurite

• Genetics of osteoarticular disorders, Florence, Italy, 22-23 February 2002.

  PMID 12223106 · PMC128940 · Arthritis research · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OP and OA are common, polygenic, multifactorial quantitative disorders influenced by both low-penetrance genetic variants and environmental factors

  patients twin families dutch association magnetic genome-wide

• Trem2 promotes anti-inflammatory responses in microglia and is suppressed under pro-inflammatory conditions.

  PMID 32959884 · PMC7689298 · Human molecular genetics · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Trem2 R47H knock-in mice show gene dose-dependent decreased Trem2 expression in hippocampus, largely due to altered splicing

  hippocampal microglia conditioned rt-qpcr immunohistochemistry glial

• RNA-Seq alignment to individualized genomes improves transcript abundance estimates in multiparent populations.

  PMID 25236449 · PMC4174954 · Genetics · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Genetic variants distinguishing an individual genome from the reference cause read misalignment and biased transcript abundance estimates, and fine-tuning of alignment algorithms does not correct this problem.

  liver genomic cast simulated bulk high-density rna-seq

• G2Cdb: the Genes to Cognition database.

  PMID 18984621 · PMC2686544 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  G2Cdb integrates experimentally validated synapse proteome datasets with mouse/human genomic annotation, phenotype, and human disease data in a gene-centric database.

  brain nervous genome synaptic proteomic large-scale sequence

• MerTK-triggered TGFβ1 autocrine signal regulates microglial response to neurodegeneration.

  PMID 41634038 · PMC12976283 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglial response to pathological axonal degeneration (optic nerve injury) depends on the phagocytic receptor MerTK

  optic facs-sorted microglia co-immunostaining qpcr bulk

• Metabolic profiling during malaria reveals the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in regulating kidney injury.

  PMID 33021470 · PMC7538157 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Plasma AHR ligands derived from heme metabolism (biliverdin, bilirubin) and tryptophan/kynurenine pathway metabolites increase during acute Pc malaria in mice and acute cerebral malaria in humans

  c57bl pediatric littermate untargeted targeted bilirubin

• The mouse gastric surface epithelial cell and its response to early Helicobacter pylori infection.

  PMID 41824631 · PMC13020875 · Virulence · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  SMCs show high gene expression for mucus-secreted proteins (Tff1, Gkn1, Gkn2, Psca, Muc5ac), mitoribosome RNA, and cytoskeleton proteins

  laser-microdissected gastric ffpe oct-embedded sequencing glycomics immunofluorescence

• Neuropixels Opto: combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics.

  PMID 42225964 · PMC13259958 · Nature methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Neuropixels Opto probes integrate 960 recording sites and two sets of 14 light emitters (blue and red) on a 70-μm-wide, 1-cm-long shank via monolithic CMOS+photonics integration

  neuropixels test visual hippocampus electrode optical light

• Vespucci: a system for building annotated databases of nascent transcripts.

  PMID 24304890 · PMC3936758 · Nucleic acids research · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Existing ChIP-seq and RNA-seq analysis platforms (e.g. Cufflinks, peak callers) are unsuited to GRO-seq because they assume spliced/exonic reads, uniform density and paired-end data, and cannot identify transcriptional units de novo across the whole genome.

  thioglycollate-elicited mcf-7 macrophages mm9 gro-seq chip-seq short-read

• Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation.

  PMID 41851525 · PMC13132723 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglia repopulate rapidly and exclusively cell-autonomously from surviving microglia after CSF-1R inhibitor (BLZ945) depletion.

  brain cerebral cd11b+cd45int-hi leptomeninges flow confocal single-cell

• VISTA drives pancreatic tumor progression through modulation of the tumor-associated macrophage polarity.

  PMID 41776161 · PMC13194722 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  VISTA deficiency significantly impairs PDAC tumor growth and prolongs survival in murine orthotopic models

  pan02 cd45+ tumor mice orthotopic pharmacological flow

• mtDNA G10398A variant in African-American women with breast cancer provides resistance to apoptosis and promotes metastasis in mice.

  PMID 19763141 · PMC2909846 · Journal of human genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The G10398A cybrid shows slower proliferation and delayed cell cycle progression (G1 accumulation, decreased G2/M) compared to wild-type G10398 cybrid

  blood mitochondria g10398a cybrid pcr cybrid spectrophotometric

• Impaired stem cell migration and divisions in Duchenne muscular dystrophy revealed by live imaging.

  PMID 41605927 · PMC12917047 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  mdx MuSCs show impaired migration and precocious differentiation through unbalanced symmetric divisions, driven by p38 and PI3K signalling, in contrast to the p38-only dependence of healthy MuSCs.

  fdb myofibres muscs intravital intravital myofibre retrospective

• Epigenetics and phenotypic variation in mammals.

  PMID 16688527 · PMC3906716 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications are mitotically heritable, but the fidelity of meiotic/transgenerational inheritance in mammals is poorly understood and evidence in mammals is scanty.

  mammalian mhc chromosomes embryonic methylation high-throughput chip

• Systems analysis of bone.

  PMID 20046860 · PMC2790199 · Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Fracture risk and skeletal traits are highly heritable, with over 350 QTLs mapped across the mouse genome and genes such as LRP5, Alox15, and Darc identified as regulators of bone mass.

  intercross long tibiae mandible qtl dual-energy whole-bone

• Advanced Glycation End-Products Contribute to Delayed Diabetic Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing via the TLR4 Signaling.

  PMID 41718657 · PMC12927432 · Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AGE accumulation is significantly increased in diabetic corneas compared to normal corneas

  bmdcs bmdc corneal t1dm sequencing western quantitative

• Synaptic dysfunction and oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease: emerging mechanisms.

  PMID 16989739 · PMC3933161 · Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2006 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Mutations in APP, PS1 and PS2 genes and polymorphisms in the APOE gene are implicated in AD pathogenesis

  alzheimer brain alzheimer's presenilin-1 microarray proteomic transgenic

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Gene losses during human origins.

  PMID 16464126 · PMC1361800 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A comparative genomic screen identified 67 new human-specific nonprocessed pseudogenes, bringing the total (with 13 from prior literature) to 80 human-specific pseudogenes.

  pseudogene chimpanzee human-specific population comparative phylogenetic fisher's