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.

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• 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

• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Identification of novel regulatory factor X (RFX) target genes by comparative genomics in Drosophila species.

  PMID 17875208 · PMC2375033 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A subset of C. elegans DAF-19 target genes have Drosophila homologs that are also regulated by dRFX, showing conservation of the RFX regulatory cascade between the two species.

  drosophila genome melanogaster real-time comparative gfp