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).

• 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

• Pathway-targeting gene matrix for Drosophila gene set enrichment analysis.

  PMID 34710184 · PMC8553153 · PloS one · 2021 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Gene matrix files for GSEA are largely unavailable for Drosophila, limiting pathway-level enrichment analysis in this model organism

  drosophila reactome kegg gene fluorescence manual

• 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

• 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

• 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 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently (Bonferroni-corrected) associated with ReHo across a discovery sample and two independent replication samples (including one non-Chinese HCP cohort).

  healthy postmortem ahba neocortex resting-state microarray weighted

• 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

• Better smelling through genetics: mammalian odor perception.

  PMID 18938244 · PMC2590501 · Current opinion in neurobiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Odorant receptor (OR) gene repertoire size and pseudogene fraction vary dramatically across mammalian species

  mammals subjects v1r trpc2 comparative genetic targeted

• Current and future directions in genomics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  PMID 18625410 · PMC3524513 · Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Familial ALS (FALS, 5-10% of cases) follows Mendelian autosomal dominant inheritance, with 20% caused by SOD1 mutations and 80% by unknown mutations

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• 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

• Enhancer RNAs stimulate Pol II pause release by harnessing multivalent interactions to NELF.

  PMID 35508485 · PMC9068813 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  eRNAs longer than 200 nucleotides that contain unpaired guanosines make multiple, allosteric contacts with NELF subunits -A and -E to trigger efficient NELF release

  cortical transcribed reconstituted erna-bound gro-seq exo-seq shape-map

• Genomics meets nanoscience: probing genes and the cell nucleus at 10-9 meters.

  PMID 11897022 · PMC139022 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Trans-splicing generates cell-specific protocadherin mRNAs in human neurons

  individual cancer pre-b saccharomyces reverse-transcriptase karyotypic spectral

• 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).

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• 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

• 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

• Identification of the stress granule transcriptome via RNA-editing in single cells and in vivo.

  PMID 35784648 · PMC9243631 · Cell reports methods · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A purification-free hyperTRIBE method (FMR1-ADARcd-V5) can identify stress granule RNAs in bulk and single Drosophila S2 cells and in Drosophila neurons

  fmr1-adarcd-v5 single bioinformatic drosophila immunofluorescence western bulk

• 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 deletion of Adgrl2 impairs cerebrovascular integrity in mice

  wild-type cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• 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

• Splicing bioinformatics to biology.

  PMID 16732900 · PMC1779529 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mutually exclusive selection of Dscam exon 6 variants is governed by base pairing between a conserved intronic docking site and selector sequences adjacent to each alternative exon.

  dscam alternative heterologous expressing comparative dicodon reporter