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).

• Monocytes serve as Shiga toxin carriers during the development of hemolytic uremic syndrome.

  PMID 39871175 · PMC11773931 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Monocytes are the primary carriers that transport Stx2 from the periphery to the kidney during STEC-induced HUS

  peripheral thp-1 cfse-labeled evs single-cell flow toxin-cell

• Itaconate and derivatives reduce interferon responses and inflammation in influenza A virus infection.

  PMID 35025971 · PMC8846506 · PLoS pathogens · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  Acod1 expression and itaconate synthesis are induced in mouse lung during IAV infection and correlate with inflammation and disease severity

  lung c57bl pbmcs macrophages bulk metabolomics histopathology

• Genetic analysis of Leishmania donovani tropism using a naturally attenuated cutaneous strain.

  PMID 24992200 · PMC4081786 · PLoS pathogens · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  The CL-SL L. donovani isolate is severely attenuated for survival in visceral organs (liver, spleen) of BALB/c mice compared with the VL-SL isolate, while inducing transient footpad swelling that VL-SL does not.

  balb cl-sl donovani experimental transgenic genome

• Large-scale mutagenesis in p19(ARF)- and p53-deficient mice identifies cancer genes and their collaborative networks.

  PMID 18485879 · PMC2405818 · Cell · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A large-scale retroviral insertional mutagenesis screen identified 10,806 insertion sites implicating over 300 loci in tumorigenesis

  p53 tumor tumors computational retroviral linker-mediated flow

• 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

  Has reproduction · 85

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

  bone kshv-infected k-pα nude flow kshv immunofluorescence

• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 50

  Following transient CD4 depletion, IL-21-producing Tfh cells do repopulate but are outnumbered by immunomodulatory CD4 T cells (Tregs, Th17), and IL-21+ frequency remains low within activated CD4 T cells.

  il-21-trfp cd44+ splenocytes chronically flow scrna-seq adoptive

• 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

• Emergence of recombinant forms of HIV: dynamics and scaling.

  PMID 17967052 · PMC2041978 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A detailed mathematical model incorporating multiple cell infections and recombination quantitatively captures experimental observations of recombinant HIV emergence dynamics in vitro

  cd4+ scid-hu splenocytes computational single-round replication-competent proviral

• 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

• Metabolic profiling during malaria reveals the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in regulating kidney injury.

  PMID 33021470 · PMC7538157 · eLife · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 62

  Plasma AHR ligands derived from heme metabolism (biliverdin, bilirubin) and tryptophan/kynurenine pathway metabolites increase during acute Pc malaria in mice and acute cerebral malaria in humans

  c57bl pediatric littermate untargeted targeted bilirubin

• Endotoxin-tolerant mice have mutations in Toll-like receptor 4 (Tlr4).

  PMID 9989976 · PMC2192941 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 1999 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Lps locus was fine-mapped to a 0.9-cM interval spanning a 1.7-Mb genomic contig on mouse chromosome 4.

  c3h genomic bac multiple-tissue genetic yac direct

• Cryptococcus neoformans strains and infection in apparently immunocompetent patients, China.

  PMID 18439357 · PMC2600263 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  71% (91/129) of Chinese cryptococcosis clinical isolates (1985-2006) came from patients with no apparent risk factor, versus only 8.5% from AIDS patients, contrasting sharply with other countries

  clinical neoformans randomly balb pcr ura5 igs1-5.8s

• Application of functional genomics to the chimeric mouse model of HCV infection: optimization of microarray protocols and genomics analysis.

  PMID 16725047 · PMC1482685 · Virology journal · 2006 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Mouse liver mRNA cross-hybridizes to corresponding human gene probes on the Agilent Human 22K oligonucleotide microarray

  liver genomic hcv-infected agilent two-color semi-quantitative real-time

• Global analysis of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus exoproteins reveals molecules produced in vitro and during infection.

  PMID 17217429 · PMC2064037 · Cellular microbiology · 2007 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  Proteomic analysis (2-DGE coupled with ADI-MS/MS) identified 250 unique exoproteins produced by MW2 and LAC culture supernatants during growth in vitro.

  mw2 mice neutrophils 2-dimensional infection confocal

• Malarial hemozoin activates the NLRP3 inflammasome through Lyn and Syk kinases.

  PMID 19696895 · PMC2722371 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Hemozoin induces IL-1β maturation and secretion in an NLRP3-, ASC- and caspase-1-dependent, but NLRC4-independent, manner

  pma-differentiated bone-marrow-derived asc nlrp3 elisa western peritoneal

• Loss of CD4(+) T cell-intrinsic arginase 1 accelerates Th1 response kinetics and reduces lung pathology during influenza infection.

  PMID 37572656 · PMC10576612 · Immunity · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  Arg1 expression is induced in lung CD4+ T cells during in vivo influenza infection, ranking among the most highly induced genes.

  flow-sorted cd3 lung cd4+ bulk flow western

• Tipping the balance in autoimmune disease.

  PMID 18001485 · PMC2246277 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human autoimmune diseases are fundamentally diseases of immune dysfunction, evidenced by predisposing genes being immune-function genes, some shared and some unique across MS, T1D, SLE, CD and RA

  patients congenic nzm2410 mrl-lpr snp induced genetic

• Genetic variants of Ehrlichia phagocytophila, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

  PMID 11996680 · PMC3369764 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2002 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  All 50 E. phagocytophila-positive samples from Bridgeport, CT (1996-1998) had 16S rRNA sequences identical to the human agent (EP-ha).

  ixodes white-footed eastern pcr-positive nested sequencing cloning

• The role of genomics in tracking the evolution of influenza A virus.

  PMID 19855818 · PMC2739293 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Antigenic drift, driven by selection for amino acid changes in exposed hemagglutinin epitope sites, is the main mechanism by which influenza A evades pre-existing immunity between pandemics.

  hemagglutinin influenza ferrets nonsynonymous antigenic whole-genome

• The application of genomics to emerging zoonotic viral diseases.

  PMID 19855817 · PMC2734983 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-throughput sequencing, mRNA expression profiling, and SNP microarray analysis enable rapid identification and genomic characterization of emerging zoonotic pathogens and host responses to them.

  siv-infected plasmacytoid migratory influenza transcriptional tlr fecal