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).

• PID1 regulates insulin-dependent glucose uptake by controlling intracellular sorting of GLUT4-storage vesicles.

  PMID 30904610 · PMC6624118 · Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PID1 serves as an insulin-regulated retention adaptor protein controlling co-translocation of LRP1 and GLUT4 to the adipocyte plasma membrane

  brown bat muscle qrt-pcr western insulin

• 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

• Novel insights into adipogenesis from omics data.

  PMID 19689276 · PMC2765082 · Current medicinal chemistry · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pparg and Cebpa are the two master transcriptional regulators governing adipogenesis

  3t3-l1 embryonic multipotent nih-3t3 microarray gel non-gel-based

• GOLD.db: genomics of lipid-associated disorders database.

  PMID 15588328 · PMC544894 · BMC genomics · 2004 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  GOLD.db integrates annotated pathways, gene/protein reference information, and curated gene expression datasets for lipid-associated disorders research

  adipocyte adipose-specific 3t3-l1 gene curated whole-body insulin

• Severe insulin resistance and intrauterine growth deficiency associated with haploinsufficiency for INSR and CHN2: new insights into synergistic pathways involved in growth and metabolism.

  PMID 19720790 · PMC2780873 · Diabetes · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  INSR is disrupted by the chromosome 19 breakpoint, causing INSR haploinsufficiency (monoallelic expression) that explains the insulin resistance/dysglycemia phenotype

  metaphase genomic ebv-transformed serum fluorescence multiplex sanger

• Cold-Induced Lipoprotein Clearance in Cyp7b1-Deficient Mice.

  PMID 35478959 · PMC9038073 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cyp7b1 deficiency blunts cold-induced hepatic Cyp7b1 upregulation and plasma bile acid synthesis

  liver plasma interscapular bat qrt-pcr western bile

• Metabolic syndrome: from epidemiology to systems biology.

  PMID 18852695 · PMC2829312 · Nature reviews. Genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MetSyn component traits (obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, hypertension) exhibit causal interactions and common etiologies rather than being independent conditions

  populations rats adipose four genome-wide linkage gene

• Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator (ARNT) gene as a positional and functional candidate for type 2 diabetes and prediabetic intermediate traits: Mutation detection, case-control studies, and gene expression analysis.

  PMID 18366646 · PMC2323364 · BMC medical genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Common ARNT variants are not associated with type 2 diabetes in European American or African American case-control cohorts

  european african individuals nondiabetic snp variant direct

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mathematical models in mammalian cell biology.

  PMID 18638360 · PMC2530880 · Genome biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A point mutation in the circadian Per2 gene causes familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS) via a phosphorylation defect that alters PER2 stability and subcellular localization.

  culture skin hela mammalian live-cell confocal phosphoprotein

• 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

• Comparative profiling of skeletal muscle models reveals heterogeneity of transcriptome and metabolism.

  PMID 31825657 · PMC7099524 · American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  L6, C2C12, and primary human myotubes show substantial heterogeneity in transcriptomic and metabolic profiles

  c2c12 transcriptomic proliferation brdu

• Novel integrative genomics strategies to identify genes for complex traits.

  PMID 16886998 · PMC2367618 · Animal genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Forward genetics is restricted to genes harboring mutations, systematically missing network genes that causally influence disease without themselves being mutated.

  bxd mice bxh alox5 qtl knockout linkage

• Endogenous Fatty Acid Synthesis Drives Brown Adipose Tissue Involution.

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

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

  bat fatty lipidomics qpcr

• Molecular helminthology in the Rockies. Keystone Symposium on Molecular Helminthology, Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA, 9-13 April 2005.

  PMID 15998458 · PMC1175981 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Schistosoma mansoni genome (~300 Mb) is nearing completion via whole-genome shotgun sequencing at ninefold coverage, with an estimated 15,000-20,000 protein-coding genes

  schistosoma brugia ancylostoma echinococcus whole-genome interference transgenesis

• The mitochondrial genome, a growing interest inside an organelle.

  PMID 18488415 · PMC2526360 · International journal of nanomedicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  mtDNA mutations are causally linked to a wide range of mitochondrial diseases, aging, and chronic degenerative diseases

  post-mitotic mtdna homozygous high-fat southern rflp-pcr dhplc

• Proteomics identifies multipotent and low oncogenic risk stem cells of the spleen.

  PMID 20005973 · PMC2891339 · The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology · 2010 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CD45- splenic stem cell-specific proteins are identical to core iPS/ES markers OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, c-MYC and NANOG.

  spleen cd45 hox11+ lc-ms rt-pcr immunofluorescence