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).

• Estimating and Correcting for Off-Target Cellular Contamination in Brain Cell Type Specific RNA-Seq Data.

  PMID 33746712 · PMC7966716 · Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  A computational method using high-quality scRNA-seq reference data can estimate per-sample, per-cell-type off-target contamination coefficients in sctRNA-seq datasets.

  brain cortex allen lcm-seq lcm-seq scrna-seq marker

• 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 Adgrl2 deletion impairs cerebrovascular integrity (blood–brain barrier).

  p30 cortex brain single-molecule single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Fine structural analysis of the neuronal inclusions of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 proteinopathy.

  PMID 18974920 · PMC2789307 · Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2008 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  TDP-43-immunoreactive inclusions (NCIs, DNs, NIIs) comprise two ultrastructural components: granular and filamentous/fibrillary material.

  post-mortem immunohistochemistry immunogold

• Digital sorting of complex tissues for cell type-specific gene expression profiles.

  PMID 23497278 · PMC3626856 · BMC bioinformatics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Digital Sorting Algorithm (DSA) deconvolves mixed tissue expression into cell type-specific profiles using only marker genes, without requiring prior knowledge of cell type frequencies or in vitro pure-cell profiles.

  liver im-9 immune deconvolved microarray simulation roc

• Cell-Type-Specific Gene Modules Related to the Regional Homogeneity of Spontaneous Brain Activity and Their Associations With Common Brain Disorders.

  PMID 33958982 · PMC8093778 · Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Fourteen gene modules were consistently associated with ReHo across three independent fMRI datasets.

  healthy six ahba neurons resting-state microarray wgcna

• RNA Editing Alterations Define Disease Manifestations in the Progression of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE).

  PMID 36429012 · PMC9688714 · Cells · 2022 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  RNA-editing events mediated by APOBEC and ADAR deaminases are significantly reduced throughout the course of EAE disease progression.

  brain naïve wild-type spinal editing quantitative eae

• Paroxysmal exercise-induced dyskinesia and epilepsy is due to mutations in SLC2A1, encoding the glucose transporter GLUT1.

  PMID 18577546 · PMC2442425 · Brain : a journal of neurology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Co-occurring PED and epilepsy can be caused by autosomal dominant heterozygous mutations in SLC2A1, encoding the glucose transporter GLUT1

  family genomic xenopus patients genome-wide pcr glucose

• Under the Shadow: Old-biased Genes Are Subject to Weak Purifying Selection at Both the Tissue- and Cell Type-Specific Levels.

  PMID 41092135 · PMC12569596 · Genome biology and evolution · 2025 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Age-related decrease in transcriptome conservation (ADICT) is commonly found in ageing tissues of nonmammalian species (chicken brain, killifish liver and skin, fruit fly brain).

  gallus nothobranchius drosophila heterocephalus bulk single-cell

• Mouse-Geneformer: A deep learning model for mouse single-cell transcriptome and its cross-species utility.

  PMID 40106407 · PMC11964219 · PLoS genetics · 2025 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Mouse-Geneformer, a Transformer Encoder model pre-trained via masked-token self-supervised learning on mouse-Genecorpus-20M, was successfully constructed following the original human Geneformer architecture.

  healthy scrna-seq disease scrna-seq type perturbation

• Evidence for L1-associated DNA rearrangements and negligible L1 retrotransposition in glioblastoma multiforme.

  PMID 27843499 · PMC5105311 · Mobile DNA · 2016 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Canonical (endonuclease-dependent, TPRT-driven) L1 retrotransposition is absent or negligible in GBM tumours and cultured GBM cell lines

  brain tumour gbm retrotransposon empty qrt-pcr

• Pathway-targeting gene matrix for Drosophila gene set enrichment analysis.

  PMID 34710184 · PMC8553153 · PloS one · 2021 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Gene matrix files for GSEA are largely unavailable for Drosophila, limiting pathway-level enrichment analysis in this model organism

  drosophila reactome kegg gene fluorescence manual

• Neuroscience in the era of functional genomics and systems biology.

  PMID 19829370 · PMC3645852 · Nature · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Omics/discovery-based approaches do not eschew hypotheses but elevate hypothesis testing to high-throughput hypothesis generation and prioritization.

  developing hippocampus bac-transgenic fetal situ gene bac-transgenic

• Alzheimer's disease biomarker discovery in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients: experimental approaches and future clinical applications.

  PMID 19796674 · PMC2840994 · Experimental gerontology · 2010 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  cDNA microarray screening of 6794 genes identified 32 genes aberrantly expressed (>1.8-fold) in the superior temporal gyrus of moderate dementia cases versus cognitively normal controls

  post-mortem cortico-hippocampal cdna western culture

• 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

• The use of neuroproteomics in drug abuse research.

  PMID 19926406 · PMC3947580 · Drug and alcohol dependence · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuroproteomic technologies (2D-DIGE, iTRAQ, ICAT, etc.) enable identification of protein-level changes underlying effects of drugs of abuse such as amphetamine, morphine, cocaine, and alcohol.

  rodent brain postmortem sectioned 2d-dige itraq heat

• Systems Analysis Reveals Ageing-Related Perturbations in Retinoids and Sex Hormones in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases.

  PMID 34680427 · PMC8533098 · Biomedicines · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  AD and PD patients can be stratified by transcriptomic clustering into three subclasses with distinct gene expression and metabolic profiles

  post-mortem brain zebrafish bulk single-cell unsupervised

• Celline: a flexible tool for one-step retrieval and integrative analysis of public single-cell RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41458999 · PMC12738925 · Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Celline is a Python package executing an entire scRNA-seq workflow (retrieval, preprocessing, integration, analysis) using single-line commands per step

  mus brain integrated homo droplet-based scrna-seq cell-type

• The relationship between PLOD1 expression level and glioma prognosis investigated using public databases.

  PMID 34040895 · PMC8127981 · PeerJ · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PLOD1 mRNA expression is significantly higher in glioma tissue than in normal brain tissue

  glioma gbm cancer gene online genomic

• G2Cdb: the Genes to Cognition database.

  PMID 18984621 · PMC2686544 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  G2Cdb integrates experimentally validated synapse proteome datasets with mouse/human genomic annotation, phenotype, and human disease data in a gene-centric database.

  brain nervous genome synaptic proteomic large-scale sequence

• Variants in the estrogen receptor alpha gene and its mRNA contribute to risk for schizophrenia.

  PMID 18424448 · PMC2465798 · Human molecular genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genotype CC (rs2234693/PvuII) and C-allele-containing haplotypes in ESR1 intron 1 are more frequent in African American schizophrenics than controls

  genomic postmortem nimhgi esr1 targeted case-control family-based