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).

• Meta-analysis of inter-species liver co-expression networks elucidates traits associated with common human diseases.

  PMID 20019805 · PMC2787626 · PLoS computational biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel semi-parametric meta-analysis method (based on a gene-centric Glass's d effect size) outperforms existing parametric and non-parametric meta-analysis methods at identifying functionally coherent gene pairs across species.

  liver simulated conserved nearly gene simulation kolmogorov-smirnov

• Systematic Analysis of Long Non-Coding RNA Genes in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

  PMID 35893239 · PMC9332188 · Non-coding RNA · 2022 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  Many lncRNAs, like protein-coding genes, are differentially expressed in NAFLD patients compared to healthy normal-weight and obese individuals.

  liver huh-7 bulk sirna lipid

• 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

• The butyrophilin 1a1 knockout mouse revisited: Ablation of Btn1a1 leads to concurrent cell death and renewal in the mammary epithelium during lactation.

  PMID 34938960 · PMC8664049 · FASEB bioAdvances · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BTN1A1 functions as an apical membrane receptor that forms a lipid-droplet secretion complex with the redox enzyme xanthine oxidoreductase (XDH)

  mammary rna-seq proteomic qrt-pcr

• Improved weight management using genetic information to personalize a calorie controlled diet.

  PMID 17945020 · PMC2151062 · Nutrition journal · 2007 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Personalizing a weight-management diet using nutrigenetic test results improves long-term BMI reduction and weight loss maintenance compared to a standard diet.

  buccal patients serum genotyping case-control fasting

• 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

• 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

• NUSAP1 Could be a Potential Target for Preventing NAFLD Progression to Liver Cancer.

  PMID 35431924 · PMC9010788 · Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  NUSAP1 is a hub gene linking NAFLD fibrosis progression and NAFLD-associated HCC

  liver common hl-7702 c57bl deg kegg rt-pcr

• Comparison between short-term stress and long-term adaptive responses reveal common paths to molecular adaptation.

  PMID 35243257 · PMC8873613 · iScience · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Short-term stress and long-term adaptations share common metabolic pathways

  great embryonic gef mapk1 bulk gene transcription

• The integrated world of functional genomics.

  PMID 12537543 · PMC151279 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integrating chromatin immunoprecipitation (promoter-binding) data with expression data reveals the yeast cell-cycle transcriptional regulatory network, including network motifs such as autoregulation, multi-component loops, and feedforward loops.

  cerevisiae sequenced elegans drosophila chromatin integration comparative

• 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

• Diapause vs. reproductive programs: transcriptional phenotypes in a keystone copepod.

  PMID 33782539 · PMC8007741 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  t-SNE clustering of all-gene expression data groups field-collected (diapause program) samples into one cluster while early and late culture (reproductive program) samples separate into two distinct phenotypes

  calanus same 11k degs bulk dimensionality differential

• 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.

  th-cre awake ibat plasma retrograde chemogenetic indirect

• 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

• New strategies in drug discovery.

  PMID 16671397 · PMC7120019 · Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A new integrated drug discovery paradigm has emerged combining clinical, genetic, genomic, and molecular phenotype data with cheminformatics, managed via informatics

  animal normal low-abundance mice situ microarray taqman

• 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

• 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

• Innate immune modulation by RNA viruses: emerging insights from functional genomics.

  PMID 18654572 · PMC7097543 · Nature reviews. Immunology · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Influenza virus signals primarily through RIG-I to induce ISG expression, while West Nile virus signals through both RIG-I and MDA5 cooperatively.

  embryonic liver brain serial gene-expression computational