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).

• Brown fat activation reduces hypercholesterolaemia and protects from atherosclerosis development.

  PMID 25754609 · PMC4366535 · Nature communications · 2015 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  β3-AR agonist-mediated BAT activation reduces plasma triglycerides and cholesterol and protects against atherosclerosis development in APOE*3-Leiden.CETP mice.

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• Shiny-Calorie: a context-aware application for indirect calorimetry data analysis and visualization using R.

  PMID 41640623 · PMC12867577 · Bioinformatics advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Shiny-Calorie is an open-source interactive application for transparent data and metadata integration, statistical analysis, and visualization of indirect calorimetry datasets.

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• LOCATE: a mammalian protein subcellular localization database.

  PMID 17986452 · PMC2238969 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  LOCATE is a curated, web-accessible database housing membrane organization and subcellular localization data for mouse and human proteins.

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• Indirect genomic effects on survival from gene expression data.

  PMID 18358079 · PMC2397510 · Genome biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel methodology (dynamic path analysis combined with additive hazard survival regression) can detect and quantify indirect effects of gene expression on survival mediated through transcription factor target genes.

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• The indirect effect of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination on healthcare workers' unvaccinated household members.

  PMID 35246536 · PMC8897446 · Nature communications · 2022 · 5 claims · 4 setups

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  mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination of healthcare workers is associated with reduced SARS-CoV-2 infections among their unvaccinated adult household members (indirect effectiveness).

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• 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.

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• The cell cycle and virus infection.

  PMID 15576934 · PMC7120536 · Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Viruses interfere with the host cell cycle to increase efficiency of virus replication

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• Intact innervation is essential for diet-induced recruitment of brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 30576247 · PMC6459298 · American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Intact innervation of BAT is essential for diet-induced thermogenesis/recruitment.

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• Characterization of novel isoforms and evaluation of SNF2L/SMARCA1 as a candidate gene for X-linked mental retardation in 12 families linked to Xq25-26.

  PMID 18302774 · PMC2266716 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  The SNF2L gene spans 77 kb and is encoded by 25 exons that undergo alternative splicing to generate multiple distinct transcripts.

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• Apoptotic brown adipocytes enhance energy expenditure via extracellular inosine.

  PMID 35790189 · PMC9452294 · Nature · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Apoptotic brown adipocytes release a specific secretome enriched in purine metabolites (including inosine, AMP, hypoxanthine, ATP)

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• 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

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• 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.

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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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• NK2R control of energy expenditure and feeding to treat metabolic diseases.

  PMID 39537932 · PMC11602716 · Nature · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NK2R activation is sufficient to suppress appetite centrally and increase energy expenditure peripherally

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• Enthoprotin: a novel clathrin-associated protein identified through subcellular proteomics.

  PMID 12213833 · PMC2173151 · The Journal of cell biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Subcellular proteomics of purified CCVs identifies enthoprotin (encoded by KIAA0171), a novel ENTH domain-containing protein not previously detected at the protein level.

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• Differential recruitment of pre-mRNA splicing factors to alternatively spliced transcripts in vivo.

  PMID 16231974 · PMC1262628 · PLoS biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Distinct combinations of pre-mRNA splicing factors are recruited to sites of alternatively spliced transcripts in intact cells, providing the first in vivo evidence for differential splicing factor association.

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• 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.

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• Genome microevolution of chikungunya viruses causing the Indian Ocean outbreak.

  PMID 16700631 · PMC1463904 · PLoS medicine · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The Indian Ocean outbreak was initiated by a strain related to East African CHIKV isolates, which subsequently evolved via a traceable microevolution history

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• Interactome networks: the state of the science.

  PMID 16515723 · PMC1431712 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Spastin interacts with CHMP1B, an ESCRT-III-associated protein, supporting a role for spastin in intracellular membrane trafficking relevant to hereditary spastic paraplegia

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• Engineered apoptotic nucleases for chromatin research.

  PMID 17626049 · PMC1935020 · Nucleic acids research · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Inserting TEVP cleavage sites immediately downstream of the two caspase-3 sites in DFF45 (I1I2 mutant) makes DFF40 nuclease activity exclusively dependent on TEVP cleavage (DFF-T)

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