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).

• iceDP: identifying inter-chromatin engagement via density peaks clustering algorithm.

  PMID 41499218 · PMC12777978 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  iceDP uses the Density Peak clustering algorithm plus a distribution test and fold change filter to identify NHCCs from Hi-C interaction matrices while removing false positives

  olfactory embryonic tc-797 islet hi-c h3k27ac micro-c

• 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

• Quadratic regression analysis for gene discovery and pattern recognition for non-cyclic short time-course microarray experiments.

  PMID 15850479 · PMC1127068 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A step-down quadratic regression method (fitting quadratic, then linear, then null models per gene) identifies differentially expressed genes and classifies them into 9 temporal expression patterns using continuous time information.

  olfactory present same anova-significant microarray step-down peddada

• Genome-wide analysis of MEF2 transcriptional program reveals synaptic target genes and neuronal activity-dependent polyadenylation site selection.

  PMID 19109909 · PMC2630178 · Neuron · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MEF2 directly regulates a genome-wide program of 182 activity-dependent target genes in hippocampal neurons

  e18 hippocampal forebrain profiling rt-qpcr chip-chip

• Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay orchestrates neuronal migration and cortical lamination while modulating Reelin and ciliary gene regulatory networks.

  PMID 41746809 · PMC13042203 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  UPF2-mediated NMD is required for proper cortical lamination; conditional Upf2 deletion in radial glia disrupts layering of TBR1+/SATB2+ and CTIP2+/CUX1+ neurons.

  cortex embryonic cortical neural immunofluorescence utero co-electroporation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Genomics meets nanoscience: probing genes and the cell nucleus at 10-9 meters.

  PMID 11897022 · PMC139022 · Genome biology · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Trans-splicing generates cell-specific protocadherin mRNAs in human neurons

  individual cancer pre-b saccharomyces reverse-transcriptase karyotypic spectral

• 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

• 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

• 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

• GRAMD1B is a regulator of lipid homeostasis, autophagic flux and phosphorylated tau.

  PMID 40204713 · PMC11982250 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  GRAMD1B is increased in excitatory neurons of human neural organoids (HNOs) carrying the MAPT R406W mutation

  neural hno single-cell immunofluorescence western

• 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

• Multiple functions of precursor BDNF to CNS neurons: negative regulation of neurite growth, spine formation and cell survival.

  PMID 19674479 · PMC2743674 · Molecular brain · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  R125M, R127L, and R125M/R127L BDNF SNP variants are poorly cleaved, resulting in predominant secretion of proBDNF (CR-proBDNF)

  bdnf hippocampal cortical cerebellar bioinformatic western immunoprecipitation

• Plexin B3 promotes neurite outgrowth, interacts homophilically, and interacts with Rin.

  PMID 16122393 · PMC1215486 · BMC neuroscience · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Plexin B3 strongly and plexin B2 moderately stimulate neurite outgrowth of primary murine cerebellar neurons

  cos-7 cerebellar nih-3t3 yeast northern western situ

• 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

• 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

• Identification of the stress granule transcriptome via RNA-editing in single cells and in vivo.

  PMID 35784648 · PMC9243631 · Cell reports methods · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A purification-free hyperTRIBE method (FMR1-ADARcd-V5) can identify stress granule RNAs in bulk and single Drosophila S2 cells and in Drosophila neurons

  fmr1-adarcd-v5 single bioinformatic drosophila immunofluorescence western bulk