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).

• 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

• Brown adipose tissue lipoprotein and glucose disposal is not determined by thermogenesis in uncoupling protein 1-deficient mice.

  PMID 32769145 · PMC7604721 · Journal of lipid research · 2020 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Glucose and lipoprotein handling by thermogenic adipose tissue does not necessarily reflect UCP1-dependent thermogenic activity

  bat thermogenic radiolabeled thermogenic

• MACanalyzeR scRNAseq analysis tool reveals PPARγ(HIGH)/GDF15(HIGH) lipid-associated macrophages facilitate thermogenic expansion in BAT.

  PMID 40450001 · PMC12126529 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MACanalyzeR is a novel computational scRNAseq framework (with FoamSpotteR, MacPolarizeR, and PathAnalyzeR modules) for comprehensive monocyte/macrophage metabolic and phenotypic profiling

  bat stromal paraffin-embedded aortic bulk proteomics scrnaseq

• 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

• 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.

  e3l.cetp interscapular liver aortic indirect histology plasma

• 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

• Exosomal microRNA miR-92a concentration in serum reflects human brown fat activity.

  PMID 27117818 · PMC4853423 · Nature communications · 2016 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Brown and beige adipocytes release exosomes, and thermogenic activation increases exosome release both in vitro and in vivo.

  brown tissues serum exosomes electron exosome mirna

• 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

• Effects of Pharmacological Thermogenic Adipocyte Activation on Metabolism and Atherosclerotic Plaque Regression.

  PMID 30813320 · PMC6412269 · Nutrients · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Chronic dietary CL316,243 treatment reduces adiposity and enhances body weight loss independent of food intake in LDLR-deficient mice

  ldlr-deficient bat ingwat liver body histology quantitative