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).

• 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

• 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

• Report on the Molecular Approaches to Osteoarthritis Symposium, Imperial College London, UK, 18-20 April 2004.

  PMID 15380034 · PMC546282 · Arthritis research & therapy · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OA cartilage and synovium show an 'IL-1 signature' of upregulated inflammatory cytokines/chemokines, with peripheral blood leukocytes possibly activated by trafficking through affected joints

  cartilage knee mesenchymal chondrocytes transcriptional clinical overexpression

• Critical care: applying genomics to inflammation outcomes.

  PMID 16330338 · PMC1314943 · Environmental health perspectives · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genetic factors drive key aspects of an individual's inflammatory outcome after trauma, burns, or sepsis

  leukocytes whole-blood healthy peripheral genomewide whole-genome microarray

• 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

• Defactinib inhibits PYK2 phosphorylation of IRF5 and reduces intestinal inflammation.

  PMID 34795257 · PMC8602323 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 12 setups

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  PYK2 was identified as a putative IRF5 kinase via a kinase inhibitor library screen in macrophages

  raw264.7 hektlr4 hoxb8-derived colon kinase co-immunoprecipitation co-ip

• Dynamics of lung-infiltrating virus-specific T cells associated with age-dependent SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia severity.

  PMID 41533733 · PMC12829949 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aged Nr4a3-Tocky mice develop more severe pneumonia and delayed body weight recovery after SARS-CoV-2 infection than adult mice

  nr4a3-tocky bronchoalveolar lung left viral histopathology immunohistochemistry

• 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

• Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit.

  PMID 41501466 · PMC12820784 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammation-associated fibroblasts (IAFs), induced by proinflammatory FCN1+IL1B+ macrophages, produce profibrotic IL-11 and drive fibrosis in IBD

  intestinal colon pdgfra+ colonic scrna-seq xenium masson's

• Single-cell analysis of testicular bacterial microbiome changes during aging and effect on reproductive capacity in mice.

  PMID 41438041 · PMC12719757 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  INVADE-seq (single-cell RNA-seq combined with 16S rRNA targeting) detects a sparse but widespread bacterial presence across diverse testicular cell types

  testis young testicular invade-seq histology sperm

• A need for a 'whole-istic functional genomics' approach in complex human diseases: arthritis.

  PMID 12718747 · PMC165036 · Arthritis research & therapy · 2003 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A systems ('whole-istic') functional genomics approach integrating multiple technologies and biological levels (cell, tissue, organ, organism) is necessary to understand complex diseases like arthritis.

  oa-affected cartilage type zebrafish gene differential genetic

• Inflammatory Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Multiple Myeloma: Transcriptional Signature and In Vitro Modeling.

  PMID 37958322 · PMC10650304 · Cancers · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 279-gene 'iMSC signature' is upregulated in BM MSCs from MM patients compared to healthy donors, identified by reanalysis of single-cell RNA-seq data.

  facs-isolated expanded bm-mscs mscs single-cell bulk gene

• Predicting position along a looping immune response trajectory.

  PMID 30296270 · PMC6175499 · PloS one · 2018 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Looper is a computational method that automatically identifies phase-shifted gene pairs (using SAX symbolic representation) that trace loops in longitudinal expression data.

  monocytes blood pbmcs montreal microarray qrt-pcr topological

• Network Controllability Reveals Key Mitigation Points for Tumor-Promoting Signaling in Tumor-Educated Platelets.

  PMID 41226816 · PMC12609506 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  TEPs from NSCLC patients show 111 upregulated and 108 downregulated genes compared to platelets from non-cancer donors

  platelets degs platelet-specific tep-specific transcriptome pathway k-means

• Single-cell transcriptomics reveals keratinocyte dynamic processes associated with S100a4 expression in psoriasiform dermatitis.

  PMID 41660613 · PMC12876221 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  S100a4 knockout mice show significant pathological improvement in psoriasis-like lesions, including reduced inflammatory cell infiltration and decreased epidermal hyperplasia

  c57bl skin dorsal dcmo crispr western imiquimod-induced

• Expanding the vision of environmental health at UNC-CH.

  PMID 15248304 · PMC1247395 · Environmental health perspectives · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human breast tumors arise from at least two distinct cell types, basal and luminal epithelial, with different clinical behavior

  breast chinese carolina rodent microarray functional genetic

• Spatial transcriptomics identifies differentiation, lipid metabolism, and retinoid pathway alterations in acne vulgaris.

  PMID 41657309 · PMC12892907 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A custom KRT5-directed segmentation pipeline improves transcript assignment accuracy in the spatially complex sebaceous gland compared with standard multimodal or nuclei-expansion segmentation

  skin inflammatory tert gtrd spatial immunohistochemistry reanalysis

• 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

• Clinical and genetic analysis of Korean patients with Miyoshi myopathy: identification of three novel mutations in the DYSF gene.

  PMID 16891820 · PMC2729898 · Journal of Korean medical science · 2006 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  All three unrelated Korean MM patients carried compound heterozygous mutations in the DYSF gene.

  peripheral dysf chromosomes korean genomic pcr direct

• sCellST predicts single-cell gene expression from H& E images.

  PMID 41513659 · PMC12858858 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  sCellST is a weakly supervised (Multiple Instance Learning) deep learning framework that predicts single-cell gene expression from H&E images alone, trained using paired spatial transcriptomics (Visium) and H&E slides

  ovarian kidney prostate breast simulation spot-level nucleus