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).

• Characterization of the placental macrophage secretome: implications for antiviral activity.

  PMID 19070362 · PMC2947718 · Placenta · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  PM and MDM secrete different soluble proteins, some of which may contribute to decreased HIV-1 replication in PM

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• Bacterial reporter-paired scRNA sequencing reveals cross talk between zinc starvation and zinc toxicity in macrophage antibacterial defense.

  PMID 41802048 · PMC12993976 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Macrophages starve intracellular E. coli of zinc to sensitize them to subsequent zinc toxicity, coupling zinc starvation and zinc toxicity in a single antimicrobial response

  monocyte-derived hmdm zntr-dual macrophages confocal high-throughput flow

• Hypoxia-driven remodeling of SELENOP(+) macrophages shapes T cell dynamics and promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.

  PMID 41526347 · PMC12852879 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SELENOP+ macrophages co-occur and spatially co-localize with precursor exhausted (GZMH+) CD8+ T cells and activate these T cells via selenoprotein P in vitro and in vivo.

  hgsoc million pseudo-bulk hgsoc-derived scrna-seq sctcr-seq spatial

• Lipid droplet-mediated macrophage reprogramming drives fibroblast activation in keloid-associated inflammation.

  PMID 41840659 · PMC13063924 · Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Keloid-associated macrophages (KAM) and skin-associated macrophages (SAM) represent transcriptionally distinct populations, with KAM showing enhanced lipid metabolism and M2/pro-fibrotic signatures

  skin keloid pbmc-derived macrophages single-cell immunofluorescence macrophage-sebocyte

• 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

  ewat facs-sorted arms sort-purified flow bulk atac-seq

• CAR-M2 immunotherapy resolves renal fibrosis via revascularization and apoptosis of profibrotic Cxcr2(+) endothelial cells.

  PMID 41887221 · PMC13130657 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CAR-M2 macrophages (anti-FAP CAR + IL-4-secreting, 4-1BB/CD3ζ costimulatory domains) specifically target and phagocytose FAP+ fibroblasts

  kidney car-m2 macrophages uuo scrna-seq histology live-cell

• CD14(lo)CD301b(+) macrophages gathering as a proangiogenic marker in adipose tissues.

  PMID 39645040 · PMC11745947 · Journal of lipid research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cd14−/− mice exhibit a leaner body shape and are protected from HFD-induced obesity compared to WT mice

  epididymal adipose cd14low macrophage bulk scrna-seq pseudotime

• RANKL inhibits macrophage proinflammatory Toll-like receptor 2 and 4 signaling and impairs killing of intracellular bacteria.

  PMID 42177796 · PMC13198865 · ImmunoHorizons · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Prior RANKL exposure increases intracellular Salmonella Typhimurium (STm) burden in mouse and human macrophages

  bone bmdms raw-dual splenic bacterial viability sequencing

• A macrophage-induced subpopulation of mesenchymal cells expressing Fcer1g contributes to wound-induced fibrosis.

  PMID 41680182 · PMC13009336 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Early-phase macrophage depletion (MaFIA + AP20187) reduces fibrosis/scar area and mesenchymal cell numbers without delaying reepithelialization or angiogenesis.

  mafia nih pdgfra-rtta flow excisional immunofluorescence

• Development and validation of a potency assay matrix for optimized and consistent manufacture of clinical mesenchymal stem/stromal cells.

  PMID 41798920 · PMC12960169 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MSCs consistently suppress T cell proliferation

  pbmcs cd4+ monocytes msc-conditioned suppression regulatory macrophage

• Single-cell and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Glutamine-mediated crosstalk between M2 macrophages and tumor cells via the SLC38A5/FOXM1/CNIH4 axis promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma progression.

  PMID 41715179 · PMC13020291 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Glutamine secretion from M2 macrophages to tumor cells via SLC38A5 is the core mCCC pathway upregulated in metastatic OSCC lesions compared to primary lesions.

  oscc epithelial tcga-oscc hsc-3 scrna-seq hdwgcna bulk

• LMO1 expression in neuroblastoma cells reprograms tumor-associated macrophages to promote metastasis.

  PMID 41858882 · PMC12997303 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LMO1 overexpression in MYCN-driven neuroblastoma cells reprograms tumor-associated macrophages to promote metastasis

  tumors macrophage u937 zebrafish single-cell gsva conditioned

• Airway injury induces alveolar epithelial responses mediated by macrophages.

  PMID 41579370 · PMC13090803 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Club cell injury (naphthalene) induces transient proliferation of distal AT2 progenitor cells

  lung bronchoalveolar club alveolar-enriched single-cell immunofluorescence flow

• Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit.

  PMID 41501466 · PMC12820784 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammation-associated fibroblasts (IAFs), induced by proinflammatory FCN1+IL1B+ macrophages, produce profibrotic IL-11 and drive fibrosis in IBD

  intestinal colon pdgfra+ colonic scrna-seq xenium masson's

• Single cell multiomics revealed fibrotic trajectories of endometrial cells and interaction with the pro-fibrotic macrophages in intrauterine adhesion.

  PMID 41947225 · PMC13188631 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human IUA endometrium contains a novel ACTA2+KRT8+ myofibrotic-epithelial subpopulation and an ACTA2+CD31+ myofibrotic-endothelial subpopulation, in addition to myofibroblasts

  endometrial iua scrna-seq snatac-seq spatial

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

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

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  Cancer cells in vivo display higher coherent orientation of MT dynamics along their major axis compared to 2D in vitro cultures

  ht1080-eb3-mapple es2-eb3-mapple ht1080 cancer intravital live-cell confocal

• Host-derived interleukin-1α drives tumor immunosuppression by reprogramming tumor-associated myeloid cells.

  PMID 41547846 · PMC12910057 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Deletion of host Il1α causes rejection/regression of transplanted breast tumors

  h605 pymt tumor-infiltrating two-week orthotopic flow single-cell

• Purinergic adipocyte-macrophage crosstalk promotes degeneration of thermogenic brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 41261284 · PMC12715258 · EMBO reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Imbalanced sympathetic/thermogenic activation (via UCP1 deficiency or pharmacological futile thermogenesis) causes BAT inflammation, fibrosis and degeneration

  bat wild-type brown histology qrt-pcr norepinephrine

• Screening of core genes prognostic for sepsis and construction of a ceRNA regulatory network.

  PMID 36855106 · PMC9976425 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  RNA-seq of peripheral blood from 23 sepsis patients and 10 healthy controls identifies 1,044 DEmRNAs, 66 DEmiRNAs and 155 DElncRNAs.

  peripheral demrnas blood thp-1 rna-seq annotation wgcna