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).

• In vivo application of RNA interference: from functional genomics to therapeutics.

  PMID 16096010 · PMC7112075 · Advances in genetics · 2005 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  RNAi operates through two mechanistically related but distinct pathways: cytoplasmic delivery of siRNA duplexes and nuclear delivery of shRNA expression cassettes that mimic miRNA

  mice tumor laser-induced herpetic cationic intraperitoneal aqueous

• 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.

  th-cre awake ibat plasma retrograde chemogenetic indirect

• Cancer-cell-secreted miR-204-5p induces leptin signalling pathway in white adipose tissue to promote cancer-associated cachexia.

  PMID 37620316 · PMC10449837 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer cell-secreted exosomal miR-204-5p induces HIF1A in white adipose tissue by targeting the VHL gene.

  balb nsg ewat iwat orthotopic indirect sev

• Genetically engineered stem cell-derived retinal grafts for improved retinal reconstruction after transplantation.

  PMID 34409267 · PMC8361135 · iScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Bhlhb4−/− and Islet1−/− pluripotent cell lines differentiate into retinal organoids with similar timing, morphology, and gene expression to wt lines up to around DD15

  bhlhb4− nrl-gfp rd1 fluorescence rt-pcr microarray

• Irisin ameliorates obesity and insulin resistance via adipose tissue IL-33 and regulatory T cells.

  PMID 41933175 · PMC13052164 · Nature metabolism · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Irisin modulates adipose tissue inflammation by increasing IL-33 production and preserving ST2+ regulatory T cells in white adipose tissues, thereby improving obesity and glucose intolerance.

  4-week-old hfd-fed bat iwat aav8-mediated body intraperitoneal

• Mosaic partial epidermal reprogramming remodels neighbors and niches to refine skin homeostasis and repair.

  PMID 41617708 · PMC12960685 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A genetically engineered mouse model (Krt14-CreER; LSL-rtTA-EGFP; TetO-OSKM-mCherry, 'Epi-iOSKM') enables transient, reversible, mosaic OSKM expression in interfollicular epidermal cells without inducing pluripotency or teratoma risk

  epidermis sorted epidermal ife immunostaining single-cell pseudotime

• De novo identification of CD4(+) T cell epitopes.

  PMID 38658646 · PMC11093748 · Nature methods · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SABR-IIs (chimeric receptors linking a covalently attached peptide-MHC-II to CD28-CD3ζ signaling domains) present epitopes to CD4+ T cells and induce a readable NFAT-GFP/CD69 signal upon cognate TCR recognition

  nfat-gfp hla-dq8 5kc daudi nfat-gfp co-incubation species

• Differential bone morphology and hypoxia activity in skeletal metastases of ER(+) and ER(-) breast cancer.

  PMID 39572705 · PMC11582807 · Communications biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ER− MDA-MB-231 breast cancer forms more osteolytic bone metastases than ER+ MCF-7 breast cancer

  mcf-7 breast bone tumor-free immunofluorescence co-culture rna-seq

• Mural cell-derived chemokines provide a protective niche to safeguard vascular macrophages and limit chronic inflammation.

  PMID 37652021 · PMC10588993 · Immunity · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Vascular macrophages form a spatiotemporal niche in direct contact with mural cells across microvascular and macrovascular beds

  cx3cr1-mφ rfp-rep coronary peritoneal intravital confocal single-cell

• Transcriptomics, regulatory syntax, and enhancer identification in mesoderm-induced ESCs at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 35977485 · PMC9644345 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Bmp4 treatment instructs ESCs to downregulate pluripotency genes and upregulate genes associated with formative pluripotency and fate specification

  escs naive facs-isolated freshly bulk atac-seq chip-seq

• Tachykinin signaling defines distinct populations of glia in the enteric nervous system.

  PMID 41512855 · PMC12832054 · Neuron · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mucosal and muscularis glia are transcriptionally distinct populations, with mucosal glia resembling microglia and muscularis glia resembling satellite glia/astrocytes

  ileum gfp+ intestinal intestine bulk scrna-seq bayesprism

• Enteroendocrine cell lineages that differentially control feeding and gut motility.

  PMID 36810133 · PMC10032656 · eLife · 2023 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Vil1-p2a-FlpO knock-in mice combined with lineage-specific Cre lines enable highly selective intersectional genetic access to major enteroendocrine cell lineages (serotonin/enterochromaffin, GLP1, CCK, somatostatin, GIP) in vivo

  neurod1-cre neurog3-cre intestinal vil1-p2a-flpo single-cell fluorescence-activated two-color

• An oncogenomics-based in vivo RNAi screen identifies tumor suppressors in liver cancer.

  PMID 19012953 · PMC2990916 · Cell · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  shRNA pools targeting genes recurrently deleted in human HCC accelerate hepatocarcinogenesis in vivo, whereas randomly selected shRNA pools do not.

  hepatocellular p53 genomic hepatoma array-based pooled shrna

• Atypical pericapillary Ly6G⁺Nur77⁺ macrophages initiate type-2 immune responses to allergens in the mouse lung.

  PMID 41571657 · PMC12929616 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cysteine protease activity in HDM (and not LPS/TLR4 signaling) is the primary driver of Th2 allergic airway responses

  lung mediastinal par2 hematopoietic flow adoptive competitive

• Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis.

  PMID 41639447 · PMC12935554 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) induces increased innervation and functional/transcriptional engagement of vagal sensory neurons (VSNs)

  kras-g12d tumour-bearing vagal npy2r-ires-cre whole-mount aav neurite

• PDGFRA defines the mesenchymal stem cell Kaposi's sarcoma progenitors by enabling KSHV oncogenesis in an angiogenic environment.

  PMID 31881074 · PMC6980685 · PLoS pathogens · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pα(+)S (PDGFRA-positive/SCA-1-positive) bone marrow-derived MSCs are KS spindle-cell progenitors

  bone k-pα nude flow viral immunofluorescence

• In vivo microscopy reveals macrophage polarization locally promotes coherent microtubule dynamics in migrating cancer cells.

  PMID 32665556 · PMC7360550 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer cells in vivo display higher coherent orientation of MT dynamics along their major axis compared to 2D in vitro cultures

  ht1080-eb3-mapple es2-eb3-mapple ht1080 cancer intravital live-cell confocal

• 5-HT reuptake blockade induces pyroptosis in BRAF(V600E)-mutated melanomas via remodeling histone serotonylation.

  PMID 41494533 · PMC12866116 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-throughput screening of 90 FDA-approved antidepressants identifies PH as an alternative therapeutic for BRAF V600E-mutated melanoma

  braf a375 gfp-tph1-overexpressing yumm1.7 high-throughput ic50 xenograft

• 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

• VHL synthetic lethality screens uncover CBF-β as a negative regulator of STING.

  PMID 41820368 · PMC13121600 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CBFB (CBF-β) is a synthetic lethal interactor of VHL in ccRCC cell lines

  786o ccrcc tcga genome-wide competitive immunoblot