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).

• Liver-specific paraoxonase-1 alleviates regulatory T cell-driven immunosuppression via metabolic reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41387425 · PMC12701056 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PON1 expression is downregulated in HCC tumor tissue and low PON1 is associated with worse prognosis

  hcc paired hepa1-6 pon1-nc bioinformatic immunohistochemistry orthotopic

• VISTA drives pancreatic tumor progression through modulation of the tumor-associated macrophage polarity.

  PMID 41776161 · PMC13194722 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  VISTA deficiency significantly impairs PDAC tumor growth and prolongs survival in murine orthotopic models

  pan02 cd45+ tumor mice orthotopic pharmacological flow

• Ectopic NMDAR expression in cancer unmasks germline-encoded autoimmunity.

  PMID 41882353 · PMC13216075 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GluN1 and GluN2B NMDAR subunits are ectopically expressed in cancer cells of human TNBC tumours

  breast tnbc 4t1-nmdar orthotopic bulk spatial immunofluorescence

• 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.

  balb nsg ewat iwat orthotopic indirect sev

• An engineered tumor organoid model reveals cellular identity and signaling trajectories underlying SFPQ-TFE3 driven translocation RCC.

  PMID 40463960 · PMC12131257 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SFPQ-TFE3 expression is sufficient to transform normal kidney epithelial tubuloids into tRCC

  kidney tubuloids immunodeficient tub rt-qpcr western histology

• Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligands Drive Pancreatic Cancer Initiation and Progression through Protumorigenic T-cell Polarization.

  PMID 40905825 · PMC12793834 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AHR ligands (cigarette smoke extract and TCDD) promote PDAC tumor growth in a syngeneic orthotopic mouse model

  pdac naïve il22 orthotopic naïve western

• The Aging Microenvironment Is a Determinant of Immune Exclusion and Metastatic Fate in Pancreatic Cancer.

  PMID 41202211 · PMC12768431 · Cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Organismal aging accelerates PDAC progression and metastatic burden in an age-relevant syngeneic orthotopic mouse model

  kpc4662 orthotopic pdac pancreatic orthotopic heterochronic ultrasound

• 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

• Patient-derived orthotopic xenograft models recapitulate the peritoneal dissemination of pancreatic cancer and delineate its transcriptional and regulatory programs.

  PMID 41673768 · PMC12998334 · Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Organoids derived from malignant effusions of PDAC patients reproducibly generate peritoneal metastases after orthotopic implantation into the pancreas of immunodeficient mice

  pdac organoids frozen pdox orthotopic single-nucleus single-cell

• PPDPF is not a key regulator of human pancreas development.

  PMID 40193385 · PMC12037078 · PLoS genetics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PPDPF is not a key regulator of human pancreas development, in contrast to its zebrafish orthologue exdpf

  fetuses fetal hesc population situ proteome qpcr

• 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

  thp-1 glioma orthotopic gbm bulk single-cell spatial

• 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)

  4t1 brca tcga-brca top single-cell spatial bulk

• Enhancer Reprogramming Confers Dependence on Glycolysis and IGF Signaling in KMT2D Mutant Melanoma.

  PMID 33086062 · PMC7649750 · Cell reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KMT2D is a potent tumor suppressor in melanoma

  hmel-brafv600e tyr-creert2 tma kmt2d pooled xenograft genetically

• Cytoplasmic LIM domain only 2 enhances tumor endothelial cell migration through integrin β1-mediated focal adhesion signaling.

  PMID 41639897 · PMC12983546 · Acta neuropathologica communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LMO2 is highly expressed in tumor-associated vasculature/endothelial cells compared with normal brain vasculature

  glioblastoma orthotopic huvecs huvec-lmo2 single-cell transcriptomic immunofluorescence

• 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

• 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

  bladder scrna-seq um-uc-3 genomic single-cell cell-cell western

• In vivo induction of activin A-producing alveolar macrophages supports the progression of lung cell carcinoma.

  PMID 36650150 · PMC9845242 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  AMs accumulate in human lung cancer tissue and support cancer cell proliferation, contributing to unfavourable outcome

  normal llc lung c57bl immunohistochemistry count flow

• Immunoregulatory Roles of Tumor-Originated Pericytes Identified by Single-Cell Analysis in Glioblastoma.

  PMID 41001759 · PMC12713092 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD146 (MCAM) is a superior surface marker for sorting GBM pericytes, labeling nearly all PDGFRβ+ pericytes with strong specificity, unlike NG2 which labels fewer vessel-associated pericytes.

  facs-sorted frozen dissociated scrna-seq scrna-seq immunofluorescence fluorescence-activated

• Disruption of tRNA threonylation triggers RIG-I mediated anti-tumour immune response.

  PMID 41735308 · PMC13043769 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OSGEP is the catalytic subunit of the KEOPS complex responsible for t6A modification at position 37 of cytoplasmic tRNAs, and its loss causes the highest protein aggregation among 45 screened tRNA-modifying enzymes in melanoma cells

  mm117 b16f10 b16f10-derived c57bl esirna shrna rna-seq

• Single-cell mapping of cholesterol metabolism reveals FDPS as a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41706364 · PMC12916967 · Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cholesterol metabolic activity is markedly elevated in HCC tumors and in immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) non-responders, with pronounced intratumoral heterogeneity across malignant cell subpopulations

  hcc tcga-lihc malignant hepa1-6 scrna-seq bulk hdwgcna