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).

• Hypoxia-Induced Osteopontin-Positive Glioma-Associated Macrophages Facilitate Glioma Mesenchymal Transition via NF-κB Pathway Activation.

  PMID 41625475 · PMC12857759 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  A subset of GAMs with elevated OPN expression accumulates in response to hypoxic stimulation

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• 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

• Dynamic changes of the immune microenvironment in ovarian cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

  PMID 41872134 · PMC13039919 · Cell death discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Prostaglandin-mediated immunosuppressive microenvironment formation is a critical contributor to chemotherapy resistance following cisplatin treatment

  high-grade hgsoc bone bmdms scrna-seq cell-cell tensor

• Distinct origins and niches determine the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation.

  PMID 41851525 · PMC13132723 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglia repopulate rapidly and exclusively cell-autonomously from surviving microglia after CSF-1R inhibitor (BLZ945) depletion.

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• PBRM1 Deficiency Reshapes an Immune Suppressive Microenvironment Through Epigenetic Tuning of PBRM1-KDM5C-IL6 Axis in ccRCC.

  PMID 41514194 · PMC13042695 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PBRM1 deficiency increases infiltration of immunosuppressive M2 tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and creates an immune-excluded tumor microenvironment

  vhl kidney pbrm1 immunodeficient scrna-seq multiplex crispr-cas9

• Comparative single-cell landscape of immune cells in human livers affected HBV and non-viral cirrhosis.

  PMID 41815278 · PMC12971635 · Frontiers in medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Macrophage-PLCG2 (anti-inflammatory) and CD8+ T-FABP5 subsets are expanded in HBV cirrhosis compared to non-viral cirrhosis

  liver myeloid scrna-seq spatial pathway

• TRAP5 Inhibition Targeting Scar-Associated Macrophages Ameliorates Acute Kidney Injury to Chronic Kidney Disease Transition.

  PMID 41773735 · PMC13159109 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct scar-associated macrophage (SM) subset marked by high Acp5/TRAP5, Ctsk, Mmp9, and Spp1 emerges and predominates during the renal remodeling/CKD phase after AAI-induced AKI

  kidney ckd aai unilateral single-cell velocity pseudotime

• SPP1(+) macrophage-driven interactions shape the tumor microenvironment in lymph node metastatic acral melanoma.

  PMID 42020397 · PMC13230793 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LN+ acral melanoma shows preferential SPP1+ signaling, including autocrine amplification within SPP1+ macrophages and paracrine interaction with S100A8+ melanoma cells via the SPP1-CD44 axis

  tumor microarray thp-1 a375 scrna-seq immunofluorescence western

• Pan-Cancer Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Refines Multi-Origin Monocyte and Macrophage Lineages.

  PMID 41231218 · PMC12865363 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  TAMs arise from two distinct origins: C1QC+ TAMs likely derive from resident tissue macrophages, while SPP1+ TAMs and ISG15+ TAMs likely originate from circulating monocytes.

  myeloid melanoma monocyte-to-macrophage coad-read scrna-seq differential developmental

• ISG15-driven immune modulation and tumor progression in breast cancer metastasis: insights from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639695 · PMC12958617 · BMC medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSC proportion is elevated in lymph node metastatic tumor tissue (BRCA_LNMT) compared to primary tumor (BRCA_PT)

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• Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals DNMT1(+) epithelial cells promote lymphatic metastasis via CXCL17-mediated TAM infiltration.

  PMID 41845371 · PMC13107741 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  DNMT1+ epithelial cells, characterized by high epithelial-mesenchymal transition potential, show a propensity for lymph node metastasis in bladder cancer

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• Single-cell and spatial profiling of peripheral blood and synovium unveils pro-arthritis CNBP(+) myeloid cells.

  PMID 41928282 · PMC13169754 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Peripheral CNBP+ monocytes are expanded and show elevated 'inflammatory response' pathway scores in arthritis patients

  peripheral blood synovial arthritis single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analyses reveal tumor microenvironment-driven proliferation of NF2-associated vestibular schwannomas.

  PMID 41957607 · PMC13200446 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  NF2-VS tumors comprise 12 major cell lineages with distinct TME composition between Gardner and Wishart phenotypes

  vestibular fresh nf2-vs fibroblast scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• 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

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• Opioid-induced transcriptional reprogramming of cerebrospinal fluid immune cells is associated with neuroinflammatory signaling in antiretroviral treated SIV-infected rhesus macaques.

  PMID 42010620 · PMC13227897 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Morphine-dependent macaques show increased CD4+ TCM and Treg cell proportions and decreased CD8+ TEM cell proportions in CSF at the pre-infection timepoint compared to saline controls

  csf scrna-seq necropsy single-cell flow cell-cell

• Charting spatial ligand-target activity using Renoir.

  PMID 42086556 · PMC13144314 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Renoir computes a neighborhood activity score for curated ligand-target pairs at each spatial spot/cell by integrating cell type abundance, cell type-specific mRNA abundance, receptor expression, gene entropy, and mutual information between ligand and target genes.

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• Tree shrew immune cell atlas identifies NR1H3⁺ tissue macrophages with conserved anti-inflammatory function.

  PMID 41957356 · PMC13223331 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A single-cell/single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas across 12 tree shrew tissues identifies 39 distinct immune and non-immune cell types, providing a reference resource for tree shrew immunology

  tree single-cell scrna-seq cross-species functional

• Identification and validation of prognostic genes related to glycolysis and M2 macrophage in hepatocellular carcinoma: an integrated analysis of bulk RNA sequencing and single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 41766871 · PMC12935947 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  52 candidate genes were identified at the intersection of glycolysis-related genes (GRGs), M2 macrophage-related genes (MRGs), and HCC-vs-control DEGs (DEGs2).

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• Dextrorotatory kynurenine suppresses acute rejection through inhibiting M1 macrophage-mediated inflammation.

  PMID 41644740 · PMC12988155 · EMBO molecular medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Elevated serum D-Kyn levels correlate with stable graft function, while lower D-Kyn is associated with acute rejection

  serum kidney allogeneic ion scrna-seq pseudotime

• Adhesion-Related Macrophages Regulate Metabolic Homeostasis Through CAV-1 Dependency.

  PMID 41817010 · PMC13159151 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Adhesion-related macrophages (ARMs) are a distinct macrophage subpopulation that adheres directly to adipocytes and can be isolated using a novel vortex/bead-based method

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