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).

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

  solid fetal cd133+ breast facs neurosphere genome-wide

• 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

• Prime editing in mice reveals the essentiality of a single base in driving tissue-specific gene expression.

  PMID 33722289 · PMC7962346 · Genome biology · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A three-base-pair (HDR) or single-base (PE2) substitution in the Tspan2 CArG box causes cell-specific loss of Tspan2 mRNA in aorta and bladder, but not heart or brain

  tissues zygotes aorta spleen qrt-pcr allele-specific restriction

• 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

  Has reproduction · 70

  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

• 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

• Functional role of the KLF6 tumour suppressor gene in gastric cancer.

  PMID 19101139 · PMC2970616 · European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  The KLF6 locus undergoes loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in a majority of gastric cancer samples and is associated with advanced tumour stage

  gastric ags hs746t fluorescent direct quantitative

• Single-cell analysis of testicular bacterial microbiome changes during aging and effect on reproductive capacity in mice.

  PMID 41438041 · PMC12719757 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  INVADE-seq (single-cell RNA-seq combined with 16S rRNA targeting) detects a sparse but widespread bacterial presence across diverse testicular cell types

  testis young testicular invade-seq histology sperm

• 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

• 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

• Systems biology approaches for the study of multiple sclerosis.

  PMID 18505469 · PMC3865652 · Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The MHC locus on chromosome 6p21 is the strongest genetic region linked to MS susceptibility.

  patients lesion osteopontin monocyte-depleted genetic large-scale gene

• Genetically engineered stem cell-derived retinal grafts for improved retinal reconstruction after transplantation.

  PMID 34409267 · PMC8361135 · iScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Bhlhb4−/− and Islet1−/− pluripotent cell lines differentiate into retinal organoids with similar timing, morphology, and gene expression to wt lines up to around DD15

  bhlhb4− nrl-gfp rd1 fluorescence rt-pcr microarray

• Mural cell-derived chemokines provide a protective niche to safeguard vascular macrophages and limit chronic inflammation.

  PMID 37652021 · PMC10588993 · Immunity · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Vascular macrophages form a spatiotemporal niche in direct contact with mural cells across microvascular and macrovascular beds

  cx3cr1-mφ rfp-rep coronary peritoneal intravital confocal single-cell

• 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

• 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.

  interscapular whole-body adipose ibat surgical indirect western

• FAM3C/ILEI protein is elevated in psoriatic lesions and triggers psoriasiform hyperproliferation in mice.

  PMID 37226685 · PMC10331587 · EMBO molecular medicine · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 83

  ILEI protein, but not mRNA, is elevated in psoriatic skin and correlates with disease severity

  skin full-thickness normal k5-ileiind immunohistochemistry scrna-seq bulk

• Cancer cells copy migratory behavior and exchange signaling networks via extracellular vesicles.

  PMID 29907695 · PMC6068466 · The EMBO journal · 2018 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  B16F1 and B16F10 melanoma subclones functionally exchange EVs in vivo, transferring Cre mRNA cargo detectable via a Cre-LoxP color-switch reporter system

  co-injected b16f1 locally 16.5k intravital cre-loxp rt-pcr

• 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

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

  bone k-pα nude flow viral 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 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  IL-21-producing Tfh CD4 T cells repopulate after CD4 depletion but remain at reduced frequency compared with control mice

  cd44+ splenocytes spleen tcr scrna-seq flow spatial

• Stromal androgen signaling acts as tumor niches to drive prostatic basal epithelial progenitor-initiated oncogenesis.

  PMID 36323713 · PMC9630272 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of AR in stromal Gli1-lineage cells diminishes prostate epithelial oncogenesis and tumor development in vivo

  ugm hi-myc prostate hmyctg+ genetically single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Two modes of microsatellite instability in human cancer: differential connection of defective DNA mismatch repair to dinucleotide repeat instability.

  PMID 15778432 · PMC1067522 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dinucleotide microsatellite alterations in human cancer fall into two distinct modes: Type A (length changes ≤6 bp) and Type B (changes ≥8 bp)

  msh2− mlh1− lymphomas colorectal fluorescent sequencing immunohistochemistry