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).

• Apolipoprotein A-IV, a putative satiety/antiatherogenic factor, rises after gastric bypass.

  PMID 18948973 · PMC2627784 · Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Apolipoprotein A-IV (apo A-IV) is significantly increased in fasting plasma after RYGBP compared to pre-operative levels

  fasting plasma itraq-labeled subjects itraq immunoblot sds-page

• Association testing of novel type 2 diabetes risk alleles in the JAZF1, CDC123/CAMK1D, TSPAN8, THADA, ADAMTS9, and NOTCH2 loci with insulin release, insulin sensitivity, and obesity in a population-based sample of 4,516 glucose-tolerant middle-aged Danes.

  PMID 18567820 · PMC2518507 · Diabetes · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CDC123/CAMK1D rs12779790 risk allele (homozygous) is associated with decreased insulinogenic index, corrected insulin response (CIR), and AUC-insulin/AUC-glucose ratio, indicating impaired insulin release

  inter99 same taqman oral general

• Mining the equine gut metagenome: poorly-characterized taxa associated with cardiovascular fitness in endurance athletes.

  PMID 36192523 · PMC9529974 · Communications biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Built an integrated horse gut microbiome gene catalog (~25 million unique genes) and 372 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) spanning 4179 genera and 95 phyla

  fecal horse dominant plasma shotgun taxonomic functional

• Glucokinase gene mutations: structural and genotype-phenotype analyses in MODY children from South Italy.

  PMID 18382660 · PMC2270336 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  16 of 30 patients with suspected MODY (53%) carry GCK mutations, confirming GCK MODY diagnosis

  genomic gck fasting pediatric direct molecular biochemical

• Mutations in the coding regions of the hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha in Iranian families with maturity onset diabetes of the young.

  PMID 20003313 · PMC2797770 · Cardiovascular diabetology · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The Val/Met255 mutation (G→A substitution at codon 255) in HNF4α is present at a considerable frequency among Iranian clinical MODY patients

  peripheral serum pcr-rflp sanger biochemical

• Stable patterns of gene expression regulating carbohydrate metabolism determined by geographic ancestry.

  PMID 20016837 · PMC2790609 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  151 'geo-ancestral genes' were identified that are both differentially expressed between AA and CAU subjects and contain SNPs distinguishing YRI (African) from CEU (European) HapMap populations

  leukocytes leukocyte-derived archived comparison whole-genome quantitative snp

• Endurance exercise as a countermeasure for aging.

  PMID 18716044 · PMC2570389 · Diabetes · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Reduced insulin sensitivity with age is likely related to adiposity and physical inactivity rather than being an inevitable consequence of aging.

  vastus mitochondria mitochondrial extracted euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic mitochondrial citrate

• Improved methods for the enrichment and analysis of glycated peptides.

  PMID 18989935 · PMC2752342 · Analytical chemistry · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Replacing off-line desalting with an online 50 mM NH4OAc wash (10 min) of boronate-bound glycated proteins improves the enrichment workflow while minimizing sample loss

  glucose-glycated tryptic glycated lc-ms boronate lc-etd-ms database

• Covalent binding of thioredoxin to TXNIP is required for diet-induced insulin resistance in the liver.

  PMID 40345590 · PMC12180993 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  TXNIP Cysteine 247 is required for high-fat diet-induced hepatic and whole-body insulin resistance in mice

  txnip plasma 8-week liver insulin lipidomics hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic

• The cold-induced lipokine 12,13-diHOME promotes fatty acid transport into brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 28346411 · PMC5699924 · Nature medicine · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  12,13-diHOME is a cold-induced lipokine that stimulates BAT activity

  plasma bat serum mice lc-ms correlation 18f-fdg

• A biomarker panel for peripheral arterial disease.

  PMID 18687758 · PMC3133945 · Vascular medicine (London, England) · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  β2-microglobulin (β2M) and cystatin C had the highest correlation with ABI among all plasma markers tested, higher than age, smoking, or diabetes status

  plasma fasting subjects biomarker nephelometric clinical ankle-brachial

• Genotype-phenotype associations: modulation by diet and obesity.

  PMID 19037211 · PMC2771769 · Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Obesity modulates the association between APOE genotype and fasting insulin/glucose levels in men, with obese APOE4 carriers showing higher insulin and glucose than other obese genotype groups.

  framingham spanish caucasian population apoe edn1 lpl

• 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

• Genetic variants of adiponectin receptor 2 are associated with increased adiponectin levels and decreased triglyceride/VLDL levels in patients with metabolic syndrome.

  PMID 16700915 · PMC1482678 · Cardiovascular diabetology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A haplotype of three AdipoR2 variants (+795G/A, +870C/A, +963C/T) in perfect linkage disequilibrium is associated with higher plasma adiponectin levels and lower fasting triglyceride, VLDL-triglyceride, and VLDL-cholesterol levels

  peripheral plasma subjects adipor1 sequencing plasma preparative

• Mass spectrometry-based biomarker discovery: toward a global proteome index of individuality.

  PMID 20636062 · PMC3140421 · Annual review of analytical chemistry (Palo Alto, Calif.) · 2009 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Very few large-scale longitudinal MS-based proteomics studies have been performed to establish analytical variability relative to true biological variability.

  normal plasma longitudinal bottom-up top-down

• 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

• Peroxisomal proliferator activated receptor-gamma deficiency in a Canadian kindred with familial partial lipodystrophy type 3 (FPLD3).

  PMID 16412238 · PMC1368963 · BMC medical genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel PPARG nonsense mutation, Y355X, was identified in a mother and daughter with FPLD3-consistent phenotypes and was absent from unaffected relatives and 260 healthy controls

  subjects nih3t3 subject healthy sequencing luciferase western

• TFEB deficiency attenuates mitochondrial degradation upon brown adipose tissue whitening at thermoneutrality.

  PMID 33516944 · PMC7903014 · Molecular metabolism · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BAT whitening at thermoneutrality is associated with TFEB-dependent mitochondrial degradation.

  bat subscapular tfeb-bat-ko metabolically qrt-pcr western immunohistochemistry

• Alstrom syndrome (OMIM 203800): a case report and literature review.

  PMID 18154657 · PMC2266715 · Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The proband is a compound heterozygote for two novel ALMS1 mutations, V424I (exon 6) and H3882Y (exon 17), causative for Alstrom syndrome

  genomic healthy proband pcr pcr-rflp plasma

• Caloric Restriction Reprograms Adipose Tissues in Rhesus Monkeys.

  PMID 41042069 · PMC12686577 · Aging cell · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  At baseline, SAT and VAT transcriptomes are highly similar, with only ~1% of genes (30 genes, adjusted p<0.05) differentially expressed between depots in Controls

  subcutaneous sat rhesus bulk gsea xcell