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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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