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).

• Multiple functions of precursor BDNF to CNS neurons: negative regulation of neurite growth, spine formation and cell survival.

  PMID 19674479 · PMC2743674 · Molecular brain · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  R125M, R127L, and R125M/R127L BDNF SNP variants are poorly cleaved, resulting in predominant secretion of proBDNF (CR-proBDNF)

  bdnf hippocampal cortical cerebellar bioinformatic western immunoprecipitation

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A computational method using high-quality scRNA-seq reference data can estimate per-sample, per-cell-type off-target contamination coefficients in sctRNA-seq datasets.

  brain cortex allen lcm-seq lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Endothelial cell-specific Adgrl2 deletion impairs cerebrovascular integrity (blood–brain barrier).

  p30 cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• 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.

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• Quadratic regression analysis for gene discovery and pattern recognition for non-cyclic short time-course microarray experiments.

  PMID 15850479 · PMC1127068 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A step-down quadratic regression method (fitting quadratic, then linear, then null models per gene) identifies differentially expressed genes and classifies them into 9 temporal expression patterns using continuous time information.

  olfactory present same anova-significant microarray step-down peddada

• The motor neuron m6A repertoire governs neuronal homeostasis and FTO inhibition mitigates ALS symptom manifestation.

  PMID 40307231 · PMC12043976 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  m6A hypomethylation (not hypermethylation) is consistently associated with ALS across patient iPSC-MNs, postmortem tissue, and independent transcriptomic datasets

  familial wild-type hek293t motor transcriptomic m6a shrna

• Bioinformatics and system biology approaches to identify pathophysiological impact of COVID-19 to the progression and severity of neurological diseases.

  PMID 34601390 · PMC8483812 · Computers in biology and medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COVID-19 and neurological diseases (NDs) share pathophysiological connections that influence disease progression and severity

  peripheral hippocampal spinal peritumoral microarray protein-protein

• Gene co-expression network analysis in human spinal cord highlights mechanisms underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis susceptibility.

  PMID 33707641 · PMC7970949 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  WGCNA on control human cervical spinal cord RNA-seq identifies 13 co-expression modules (SC.M1-M13), each representing distinct biological processes or cell types.

  cervical als top yeast bulk stratified protein-protein

• Genome-wide analysis of MEF2 transcriptional program reveals synaptic target genes and neuronal activity-dependent polyadenylation site selection.

  PMID 19109909 · PMC2630178 · Neuron · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MEF2 directly regulates a genome-wide program of 182 activity-dependent target genes in hippocampal neurons

  e18 hippocampal forebrain profiling rt-qpcr chip-chip

• CellFishing.jl: an ultrafast and scalable cell search method for single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 30744683 · PMC6371477 · Genome biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CellFishing.jl searches prebuilt databases for cells with similar expression patterns with high accuracy and throughput using locality-sensitive hashing.

  baron2016 shekhar2016 plass2018 tabulamuris scrna-seq benchmarking self-mapping

• Single-Cell Sequencing of iPSC-Dopamine Neurons Reconstructs Disease Progression and Identifies HDAC4 as a Regulator of Parkinson Cell Phenotypes.

  PMID 30503143 · PMC6327112 · Cell stem cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A core set of 60 genes captures a continuous pseudotemporal disease axis from control to PD GBA-N370S iPSC-derived dopamine neurons (52 downregulated, 8 upregulated).

  facs-purified facs-sorted ipsc ipsc-derived bulk single-cell facs

• GRAMD1B is a regulator of lipid homeostasis, autophagic flux and phosphorylated tau.

  PMID 40204713 · PMC11982250 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  GRAMD1B is increased in excitatory neurons of human neural organoids (HNOs) carrying the MAPT R406W mutation

  neural hno single-cell immunofluorescence western

• Extensive tissue-specific expression variation and novel regulators underlying circadian behavior.

  PMID 33514540 · PMC7846174 · Science advances · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  More than 1700 mostly tissue-specific cycling genes are detected across four Drosophila tissues, substantially expanding the catalog of clock-controlled genes

  melanogaster dgrp drosophila genes bulk locomotor gene

• A global view of protein expression in human cells, tissues, and organs.

  PMID 20029370 · PMC2824494 · Molecular systems biology · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A high fraction (>65%) of proteins is expressed in most human cells and tissues, while very few proteins (<2%) are detected in any single cell type.

  normal computational hepatocytes same immunohistochemistry immunofluorescence unsupervised

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

  elegans short-read whole-animal rt-pcr

• An integrative proteomics method identifies a regulator of translation during stem cell maintenance and differentiation.

  PMID 34772928 · PMC8590018 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PISA-Express is a method that simultaneously measures protein expression and thermal stability (solubility) changes using only two samples per replicate per cell type

  hi12 ipsc ht29 foreskin pisa expression cellular

• Plexin B3 promotes neurite outgrowth, interacts homophilically, and interacts with Rin.

  PMID 16122393 · PMC1215486 · BMC neuroscience · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Plexin B3 strongly and plexin B2 moderately stimulate neurite outgrowth of primary murine cerebellar neurons

  cos-7 cerebellar nih-3t3 yeast northern western situ

• 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.

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• Neuronal Small RNAs Control Behavior Transgenerationally.

  PMID 31178120 · PMC6579485 · Cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuron-specific synthesis of RDE-4-dependent small RNAs regulates germline amplified endogenous siRNAs and germline gene expression for multiple generations

  elegans prab-3 dissected worms small sequencing facs

• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently associated with ReHo across three independent fMRI datasets.

  healthy six ahba neurons resting-state microarray wgcna