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).

• 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

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

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

  Has reproduction

  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

• Apoptotic brown adipocytes enhance energy expenditure via extracellular inosine.

  PMID 35790189 · PMC9452294 · Nature · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 57

  Apoptotic brown adipocytes release a specific secretome enriched in purine metabolites (including inosine, AMP, hypoxanthine, ATP)

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• C-terminal mutants of apolipoprotein L-I efficiently kill both Trypanosoma brucei brucei and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense.

  PMID 19997494 · PMC2778949 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The C-terminal helix of apoL1 is entirely responsible for its interaction with SRA

  coli brucei computational papio bacterial trypanolytic nickel-bead

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

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

  Has reproduction · 85

  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

• 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

• Intact innervation is essential for diet-induced recruitment of brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 30576247 · PMC6459298 · American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Intact innervation of BAT is essential for diet-induced thermogenesis/recruitment.

  interscapular whole-body adipose ibat surgical indirect western

• Considerations regarding the genetics of obesity.

  PMID 19037210 · PMC2682366 · Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genetic factors account for 40-70% of the variance in human adiposity

  monozygotic subjects european children twin genome-wide association

• 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

• GOLD.db: genomics of lipid-associated disorders database.

  PMID 15588328 · PMC544894 · BMC genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  GOLD.db integrates annotated pathways, gene/protein reference information, and curated gene expression datasets for lipid-associated disorders research

  adipocyte adipose-specific 3t3-l1 gene curated whole-body insulin

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

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

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

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

• How bacterial communities expand functional repertoires.

  PMID 17238278 · PMC1750926 · PLoS biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The human microbiome contains roughly 100 times as many genes as does the human genome

  bacteroides distal interleukin-10-deficient macrophages transcriptional metagenomic microbiota