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).

• 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 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Following transient CD4 depletion, IL-21-producing Tfh cells do repopulate but are outnumbered by immunomodulatory CD4 T cells (Tregs, Th17), and IL-21+ frequency remains low within activated CD4 T cells.

  il-21-trfp cd44+ splenocytes chronically flow scrna-seq adoptive

• An Erg-driven transcriptional program controls B cell lymphopoiesis.

  PMID 32541654 · PMC7296042 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Erg is essential for early B-cell development, with its loss causing developmental arrest at the pre–proB (Hardy fraction A-to-B) stage

  erg pre–prob b220+ prob lacz bulk flow

• Mice and more.

  PMID 14519193 · PMC328447 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A multispecies weighted conservation score, which accounts for each species' divergence rate, can identify conserved non-coding sequences (multispecies conserved sequences, MCSs) likely to be biologically significant

  cftr ciona embryonic chromosome comparative genome bac-based

• De novo identification of CD4(+) T cell epitopes.

  PMID 38658646 · PMC11093748 · Nature methods · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SABR-IIs (chimeric receptors linking a covalently attached peptide-MHC-II to CD28-CD3ζ signaling domains) present epitopes to CD4+ T cells and induce a readable NFAT-GFP/CD69 signal upon cognate TCR recognition

  nfat-gfp hla-dq8 5kc daudi nfat-gfp co-incubation species

• Understanding sex differences in environmental health: a thought leaders' roundtable.

  PMID 15064168 · PMC1241928 · Environmental health perspectives · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dioxin and corticosteroids both cause thymic atrophy but via distinct mechanisms; dioxin's atrophy kinetics resemble those induced by estrogen despite acting through a different receptor.

  laboratory mice nzb c57bl thymus radiation autoimmune

• Cancer-cell-secreted miR-204-5p induces leptin signalling pathway in white adipose tissue to promote cancer-associated cachexia.

  PMID 37620316 · PMC10449837 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Breast cancer cell-secreted exosomal miR-204-5p induces HIF1A in white adipose tissue by targeting the VHL gene.

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• Enteroendocrine cell lineages that differentially control feeding and gut motility.

  PMID 36810133 · PMC10032656 · eLife · 2023 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Vil1-p2a-FlpO knock-in mice combined with lineage-specific Cre lines enable highly selective intersectional genetic access to major enteroendocrine cell lineages (serotonin/enterochromaffin, GLP1, CCK, somatostatin, GIP) in vivo

  neurod1-cre neurog3-cre intestinal vil1-p2a-flpo single-cell fluorescence-activated two-color

• Quantitative mass spectrometry of diabetic kidney tubules identifies GRAP as a novel regulator of TGF-beta signaling.

  PMID 19836472 · PMC2829334 · Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Label-free 2D-LC-MS/MS quantitative proteomics identified 476 significantly differentially expressed proteins in kidney tubules of diabetic OVE26 mice versus control mice

  kidney hk11 list 2d-lc-ms immunoblot immunohistochemistry

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

  PMID 34409267 · PMC8361135 · iScience · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Bhlhb4−/− and Islet1−/− grafts have markedly reduced bipolar cell populations after transplantation while retaining intact photoreceptor cell layers

  bhlhb4− nrl-gfp rd1 transplanted retinal rt-pcr microarray

• In vivo microscopy reveals macrophage polarization locally promotes coherent microtubule dynamics in migrating cancer cells.

  PMID 32665556 · PMC7360550 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Cancer cells in vivo display higher coherent orientation and alignment of MT dynamics along their cell major axis than 2D in vitro cultures, and distinct from 3D collagen gel cultures.

  ht1080 es2 ht1080-eb3-mapple tumor intravital time-lapse confocal

• 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.

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• 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

• Comparative genomics reveals functional transcriptional control sequences in the Prop1 gene.

  PMID 17557180 · PMC1998882 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2007 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  A BAC transgene containing Prop1 completely rescues the Prop1 mutant (dwarf) phenotype, showing all necessary regulatory elements lie within the BAC

  pig lemur cv-1 b-prop1 bac comparative transient

• 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

• Protocol for assessing regulatory elements in murine heart using an AAV9-based massively parallel reporter assay.

  PMID 40252222 · PMC12033988 · STAR protocols · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An AAV9-based in vivo MPRA (AAV-MPRA) workflow, combined with a companion informatics platform, can dissect and quantify enhancer activity in mouse heart.

  agilent stbl3 hek293t wild-type self-annealing restriction plasmid

• Emergence of recombinant forms of HIV: dynamics and scaling.

  PMID 17967052 · PMC2041978 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A detailed mathematical model incorporating multiple cell infections and recombination quantitatively captures experimental observations of recombinant HIV emergence dynamics in vitro

  cd4+ scid-hu splenocytes computational single-round replication-competent proviral

• Profiling human androgen receptor mutations reveals treatment effects in a mouse model of prostate cancer.

  PMID 19010817 · PMC2748651 · Molecular cancer research : MCR · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Somatic AR mutations in h/mAR-TRAMP tumors are non-random and their genomic location correlates with treatment type (castration/antiandrogen vs intact).

  mar-tramp testis cv-1 ar-negative immunohistochemistry serum survival

• A 14-bp motif in the KIT active promoter region is critical for melanin accumulation in yaks, mice, and humans.

  PMID 40629379 · PMC12239316 · BMC biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 14-bp deletion in the KIT gene promoter region is associated with the all-white phenotype in yaks, identified via GWAS

  domestic re-sampled hek293t yak whole-genome pcr dual-luciferase

• Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers.

  PMID 19741700 · PMC2923221 · Nature · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Meta-analysis of ~1200 top GWAS SNPs found that in 40% of cases (472/1170) no known exons overlap the linked SNP or its haplotype block, implying noncoding variation causally contributes to many traits.

  genome patients embryos ret gwas targeted transgenic

• Biphasic expression of thyroid hormone receptor TRβ1 in mammalian retina and anterior ocular tissues.

  PMID 37033230 · PMC10076699 · Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TRβ1 shows a biphasic, late-peaking expression profile in retina that contrasts with the early embryonic peak of TRβ2

  retina fetal retinal cones rna-seq lacz immunofluorescence