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).

• Deep transcriptomics reveals cell-specific isoforms of pan-neuronal genes.

  PMID 40379625 · PMC12084633 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Pan-neuronal genes (expressed in many/all neurons) harbor highly cell-specific splice variants/isoforms restricted to single or few neuron types.

  elegans short-read whole-animal rt-pcr

• CASK loss of function differentially regulates neuronal maturation and synaptic function in human induced cortical excitatory neurons.

  PMID 36262316 · PMC9574418 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Immature (day 7) CASK KO induced neurons show increased dendritic complexity/neurite overgrowth and upregulated gene networks for cell adhesion, neurite outgrowth, and cytoskeletal organization.

  day mature bulk qrt-pcr gene

• Differential neuronal survival defines a novel axis of sexual dimorphism in the Drosophila brain.

  PMID 41529688 · PMC7618834 · Cell genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Sex differences in the Drosophila central brain do not result from large-scale transcriptional reprogramming, but from selective modifications within shared developmental lineages mediated by dsx and fru.

  drosophila central dsx+ dsx-gal4>mcd8 single-cell differential scenic

• Mechanical compression induces neuronal apoptosis, reduces synaptic activity, and promotes glial neuroinflammation in mice and humans.

  PMID 41481451 · PMC12773780 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Chronic mechanical compression (0.14 kPa) directly induces neuronal apoptosis in human iPSC-derived neurons cocultured with murine glia

  ipsc-derived gfp-expressing mglia astrocytes hoechst gfp+ immunofluorescence

• Neuronal Small RNAs Control Behavior Transgenerationally.

  PMID 31178120 · PMC6579485 · Cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuron-specific synthesis of RDE-4-dependent small RNAs regulates germline amplified endogenous siRNAs and germline gene expression for multiple generations

  elegans prab-3 dissected worms small sequencing facs

• The secrets of a functional synapse--from a computational and experimental viewpoint.

  PMID 16723009 · PMC1810317 · BMC bioinformatics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Kinesin motor proteins move cargo along axonal microtubules to the synapse, with cargo specificity determined by adaptor/linker proteins rather than lipid recognition

  mammalian kinesin cholinergic dendrites kinesin sequence-based comparative

• Premature centromere division of the X chromosome in neurons in Alzheimer's disease.

  PMID 18624923 · PMC2746937 · Journal of neurochemistry · 2008 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  PCD,X frequency is significantly elevated (~3-fold) in frontal cortex neurons of sporadic AD patients compared to age-matched controls

  frontal adjacent fluorescent hematoxylin

• Single-Cell Sequencing of iPSC-Dopamine Neurons Reconstructs Disease Progression and Identifies HDAC4 as a Regulator of Parkinson Cell Phenotypes.

  PMID 30503143 · PMC6327112 · Cell stem cell · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of GBA-N370S iPSC-derived dopamine neurons identifies a progressive axis of gene expression variation leading to endoplasmic reticulum stress.

  facs-purified ipsc-derived core bulk single-cell facs

• Enhancer RNAs stimulate Pol II pause release by harnessing multivalent interactions to NELF.

  PMID 35508485 · PMC9068813 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  eRNAs longer than 200 nucleotides that contain unpaired guanosines make multiple, allosteric contacts with NELF subunits -A and -E to trigger efficient NELF release

  cortical transcribed reconstituted erna-bound gro-seq exo-seq shape-map

• Chimeric brain models to study human glial-neuronal and macroglial-microglial interactions.

  PMID 41499239 · PMC12974579 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Co-transplantation of pNPCs and PMPs into neonatal mouse brain generates chimeric brains (hMAN) containing human microglia, astroglia, oligodendroglia, and neurons

  hipsc chimeric hpsc-derived flow sequencing immunohistochemistry

• 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

• The TREM2-APOE Pathway Drives the Transcriptional Phenotype of Dysfunctional Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

  PMID 28930663 · PMC5719893 · Immunity · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A common APOE-dependent microglial molecular signature (MGnD) — loss of homeostatic genes plus induction of inflammatory genes with Apoe among the most upregulated — occurs in ALS, MS and AD mouse models and around neuritic Aβ-plaques in human AD brain.

  facs-isolated fcrls+ sorted app-ps1 nanostring sequencing quantitative

• Endothelial Adgrl2 Expression and Alternative Splicing Controls the Cerebrovasculature.

  PMID 41876233 · PMC13108381 · The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Endothelial cell-specific deletion of Adgrl2 impairs cerebrovascular integrity in mice

  wild-type cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Integrative transcriptome-wide association analyses reveal PRKCG-linked GABAergic dysfunction in Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome.

  PMID 41507195 · PMC12881518 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics strategy combined with TWAS reveals brain-region-specific molecular signatures and striking gene dysregulation concentrated in inhibitory neurons in an FXTAS mouse model.

  brain prefrontal pfc gabaergic bulk single-nuclei immunofluorescent

• Technical challenges in using human induced pluripotent stem cells to model disease.

  PMID 19951687 · PMC2921621 · Cell stem cell · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  hiPSCs generated from patient somatic cells (skin, blood) can be differentiated into disease-relevant cell types to model disease pathogenesis in vitro

  ipscs humanized hemophilia parkinsonian tetraploid transplantation neuronal

• Direct in-gel fluorescence detection and cellular imaging of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins.

  PMID 18683930 · PMC2649877 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Y289L GalT-mediated transfer of UDP-GalNAz followed by Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition enables selective, highly sensitive fluorescent/biotin labeling of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins

  α-crystallin forebrain hela chemoenzymatic in-gel nanolc-ms

• The role of proteomics in depression research.

  PMID 19997739 · PMC2940035 · European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Proteomics offers a complementary, functional-endpoint approach that can elucidate MDD pathophysiological mechanisms and biomarkers beyond transcriptomic/targeted studies

  postmortem schizophrenia frontal hypothalamus gel shotgun proteome

• A combined approach exploring gene function based on worm-human orthology.

  PMID 15877817 · PMC1112593 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Strict phylogenetic criteria (concordant Neighbor Joining and Maximum Parsimony tree topology) can select single most-likely human orthologs for C. elegans genes despite the large phylogenetic distance between worm and human sequences.

  sapiens elegans hela phylogenetic rnai gfp