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).

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of circulating tumour cells: A practical guide to workflow and translational applications.

  PMID 41053409 · PMC12500777 · Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A 12-step CTC-specific scRNA-seq workflow is proposed, spanning enrichment, single-cell sorting, sequencing, data pre-processing and downstream analysis, to overcome methodological inconsistencies in the field.

  ctcs pooled single neuroblastoma scrna-seq multi-omics

• Prenatal and postnatal effects of gestational immune activation on synaptic and neurodevelopmental pathways via epigenetic mechanisms.

  PMID 41654489 · PMC12923905 · Translational psychiatry · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  MIA induces enduring epigenetic reprogramming of gene regulatory networks in the developing brain that persists into adulthood

  sorted frontal rna-seq mia-responsive chip-seq rna-seq facs

• 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

• Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain.

  PMID 41529688 · PMC7618834 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Sex differences in the Drosophila central brain do not result from large-scale transcriptional reprogramming, but from selective modifications within shared developmental lineages mediated by dsx and fru.

  drosophila central dsx+ dsx-gal4>mcd8 single-cell differential scenic

• CASK loss of function differentially regulates neuronal maturation and synaptic function in human induced cortical excitatory neurons.

  PMID 36262316 · PMC9574418 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Immature (day 7) CASK KO induced neurons show increased dendritic complexity/neurite overgrowth and upregulated gene networks for cell adhesion, neurite outgrowth, and cytoskeletal organization.

  day mature bulk qrt-pcr gene

• 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

• Microglia-containing cerebral organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells for the study of neurological diseases.

  PMID 36936782 · PMC10014280 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel protocol using FGF/EGF/heparin growth factor supplementation and 10% CO2 culture generates cerebral organoids containing neurons, astrocytes, and microglia from iPSCs/hESCs

  hesc-derived hesc als-pdc-affected cerebral microarray immunostaining bulk

• 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 open RNA-Seq data analysis pipeline tutorial with an example of reprocessing data from a recent Zika virus study.

  PMID 27583132 · PMC4972086 · F1000Research · 2016 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  An open-source, reproducible RNA-seq pipeline delivered as an IPython notebook and Docker image can process raw RNA-seq data into interactive PCA/HC plots, enrichment results, and small-molecule predictions with minimal setup overhead

  ipsc-derived same top differentially bulk principal hierarchical

• Machine learning and free energy clustering reveal PAH protein binding linked to AD risk.

  PMID 41953002 · PMC13053772 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PARP1, PTPN1, and ITGA4 are core PAH protein targets identified via PPI network analysis and XGBoost feature selection from AD-associated DEGs

  brain geo predicted gse44771 wgcna differential protein-protein

• Gene function in the mammalian genome, courtesy of the mouse.

  PMID 12537544 · PMC151280 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mosaicism of Mus musculus domesticus and Mus musculus musculus haplotypes exists across the inbred laboratory mouse genome, and genome-wide haplotype mapping can enhance positional cloning

  inbred genome mice model genome-wide large-scale phenotypic

• Mechanical compression induces neuronal apoptosis, reduces synaptic activity, and promotes glial neuroinflammation in mice and humans.

  PMID 41481451 · PMC12773780 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Chronic mechanical compression (0.14 kPa) directly induces neuronal apoptosis in human iPSC-derived neurons cocultured with murine glia

  ipsc-derived gfp-expressing mglia astrocytes hoechst gfp+ immunofluorescence

• Reactive astrocytes acquire neuroprotective as well as deleterious signatures in response to Tau and Aß pathology.

  PMID 35013236 · PMC8748982 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aβ (APP/PS1) and Tau (MAPT P301S) pathology induce distinct but overlapping astrocyte translatome signatures

  astrocytes aldh1l1_egfp-rpl10a astrocyte ageing trap-seq immunofluorescence ribosome

• Context dependent function of APPb enhancer identified using enhancer trap-containing BACs as transgenes in zebrafish.

  PMID 18832376 · PMC2577333 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel enhancer trap method retrofitting BACs with Tn10-based transposons enables nontargeted, functional mapping of noncontiguous cis-regulatory elements as zebrafish transgenes.

  zebrafish bac genomic transgenic field bac

• Chimeric brain models to study human glial-neuronal and macroglial-microglial interactions.

  PMID 41499239 · PMC12974579 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Co-transplantation of pNPCs and PMPs into neonatal mouse brain generates chimeric brains (hMAN) containing human microglia, astroglia, oligodendroglia, and neurons

  hipsc chimeric hpsc-derived flow sequencing immunohistochemistry

• Excitatory GABA receptors shape locomotor circuit organization in C. elegans.

  PMID 41703147 · PMC13003095 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  lgc genes are broadly and preferentially enriched in C. elegans locomotion motor neurons compared to other neuron types/subgroups

  elegans cys-loop single-cell ucell multi-species

• CITED2 is a druggable epigenetic switch coupling neuronal maturation to regenerative decline.

  PMID 41731079 · PMC13083982 · EMBO molecular medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The transition from immature non-polarized to mature polarized DRG neurons (E12.5-E17.5) is associated with loss of gene expression signatures needed for regenerative growth competence.

  drg sciatic rna-seq integrated immunofluorescence

• Integrative transcriptome-wide association analyses reveal PRKCG-linked GABAergic dysfunction in Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome.

  PMID 41507195 · PMC12881518 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics strategy combined with TWAS reveals brain-region-specific molecular signatures and striking gene dysregulation concentrated in inhibitory neurons in an FXTAS mouse model.

  brain prefrontal pfc gabaergic bulk single-nuclei immunofluorescent

• 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 · 8 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of GBA-N370S iPSC-derived dopamine neurons identifies a progressive axis of gene expression variation leading to endoplasmic reticulum stress.

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

• Spinocerebellar ataxia type 23: a genetic update.

  PMID 19089525 · PMC2694919 · Cerebellum (London, England) · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The SCA23 disease locus maps to chromosome 20p13-12.3, spanning ~6 Mb and containing 97 known/predicted genes.

  members post-mortem candidate coding genome-wide neuropathological southern