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).

• MerTK-triggered TGFβ1 autocrine signal regulates microglial response to neurodegeneration.

  PMID 41634038 · PMC12976283 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglial response to pathological axonal degeneration (optic nerve injury) depends on the phagocytic receptor MerTK

  optic facs-sorted microglia co-immunostaining qpcr bulk

• 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

• Purinergic adipocyte-macrophage crosstalk promotes degeneration of thermogenic brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 41261284 · PMC12715258 · EMBO reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Imbalanced sympathetic/thermogenic activation (via UCP1 deficiency or pharmacological futile thermogenesis) causes BAT inflammation, fibrosis and degeneration

  bat wild-type brown histology qrt-pcr norepinephrine

• An engineered tumor organoid model reveals cellular identity and signaling trajectories underlying SFPQ-TFE3 driven translocation RCC.

  PMID 40463960 · PMC12131257 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 88

  SFPQ-TFE3 expression is sufficient to transform normal kidney epithelial tubuloids into tRCC

  kidney tubuloids immunodeficient tub rt-qpcr western histology

• An atlas of the human liver diurnal transcriptome and its perturbation by hepatitis C virus infection.

  PMID 39209804 · PMC11362569 · Nature communications · 2024 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Human hepatocytes engrafted in liver chimeric mice display a large rhythmic transcriptome of ~1700 protein-coding orthologous genes, including transcription factors, chromatin modifiers, and metabolic enzymes.

  liver hcv-infected serum bulk chip-seq serum

• Mutations in alpha-tubulin cause abnormal neuronal migration in mice and lissencephaly in humans.

  PMID 17218254 · PMC1885944 · Cell · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A semidominant ENU-induced S140G mutation in α-1 tubulin (Tuba1) causes hyperactivity and impaired neuronal migration in Jna/+ mice

  enu-mutagenized jna cell-free hippocampus locomotor qtl gtp-binding

• Stem cell-associated osteogenic deficiency causes craniofacial deformities with progeroid accumulation of prelamin A.

  PMID 41632539 · PMC13041684 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lmna L648R mutation causes multiple suture craniosynostosis (AF, PF, COR) occurring under low bone density, contrasting with conventional synostosis caused by excessive ossification

  skull calvarial suture p7-p10 micro-ct h&e brdu

• 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

• Hereditary chronic pancreatitis induced plasticity cooperates with mutant Kras in early pancreatic carcinogenesis.

  PMID 41419303 · PMC13151493 · Gut · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KC-Cpa1 mice show markedly increased pancreatic remodelling, fibrosis and metaplastic/PanIN lesion formation compared with KC mice

  pancreas cre acinar scrna-seq histology bulk single-cell

• GSDME-mediated pyroptosis promotes the progression and associated inflammation of atherosclerosis.

  PMID 36807553 · PMC9938904 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  GSDME-mediated pyroptosis promotes atherosclerosis progression and its associated inflammation

  carotid macrophages gsdme− apoe− single-cell transmission immunohistochemistry

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

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

  Has reproduction · 84

  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

• Exposure to the widely used herbicide atrazine results in deregulation of global tissue-specific RNA transcription in the third generation and is associated with a global decrease of histone trimethylation in mice.

  PMID 27655631 · PMC5175363 · Nucleic acids research · 2016 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 10

  Embryonic ATZ exposure affects meiosis, spermiogenesis and reduces spermatozoa number in F3 generation male mice

  testis dissociated epididymis chip-seq strand-specific h&e

• Asthma investigators begin to reap the fruits of genomics.

  PMID 14611649 · PMC329104 · Genome biology · 2003 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Microarray profiling of animal models of allergic asthma can identify novel differentially expressed candidate genes involved in inflammation and airway remodeling.

  monkey models lung inbred cdna oligonucleotide northern

• Impaired stem cell migration and divisions in Duchenne muscular dystrophy revealed by live imaging.

  PMID 41605927 · PMC12917047 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  mdx MuSCs show impaired migration and precocious differentiation through unbalanced symmetric divisions, driven by p38 and PI3K signalling, in contrast to the p38-only dependence of healthy MuSCs.

  fdb myofibres muscs intravital intravital myofibre retrospective

• Heritable ER stress impairs mitochondrial metabolism and maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells after low-dose irradiation.

  PMID 41675062 · PMC12886522 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Proliferating 20 mGy-irradiated HSC exhibit oxidative stress and altered metabolism with increased mitochondrial ROS and mitochondrial Ca2+ overload compared to non-irradiated HSC

  cd45.1 hsc hspc-enriched bone flow carbonylation

• Endogenous Fatty Acid Synthesis Drives Brown Adipose Tissue Involution.

  PMID 33440156 · PMC8240962 · Cell reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction

  Endogenous fatty acid synthesis (DNL), regulated by ChREBP, is the central driver of BAT whitening/involution at thermoneutrality.

  bat fatty lipidomics qpcr

• Biphasic expression of thyroid hormone receptor TRβ1 in mammalian retina and anterior ocular tissues.

  PMID 37033230 · PMC10076699 · Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TRβ1 shows a biphasic, late-peaking expression profile in retina that contrasts with the early embryonic peak of TRβ2

  retina fetal retinal cones rna-seq lacz immunofluorescence

• Disruption of tRNA threonylation triggers RIG-I mediated anti-tumour immune response.

  PMID 41735308 · PMC13043769 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OSGEP is the catalytic subunit of the KEOPS complex responsible for t6A modification at position 37 of cytoplasmic tRNAs, and its loss causes the highest protein aggregation among 45 screened tRNA-modifying enzymes in melanoma cells

  mm117 b16f10 b16f10-derived c57bl esirna shrna rna-seq

• The oncogene AAMDC links PI3K-AKT-mTOR signaling with metabolic reprograming in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

  PMID 33772001 · PMC7998036 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AAMDC is an amplified/overexpressed oncogene in a subgroup of ER-positive breast cancers (IntClust2) associated with poor prognosis

  breast luminal sum52pe t-47d immunohistochemistry fluorescence qrt-pcr

• Endothelial stem cells of the retinal vasculature reside in the optic nerve.

  PMID 41577708 · PMC12830651 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD157+CD201+ endothelial stem cells (VESCs) reside predominantly in the optic nerve and supply endothelial cells to the retina

  cd45negcd31+ sorted retina procr[cd201]-creert2 flow colony-forming flat-mount