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).

• Anterior diffuse retinoblastoma: mutational analysis and immunofluorescence staining.

  PMID 19653712 · PMC2810483 · Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Anterior diffuse retinoblastoma, traditionally considered sporadic/nonheritable, can arise from a germline RB1 mutation and thus may be heritable

  enucleated tumor anterior immunofluorescence rb1 fine-needle

• 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

• Differential bone morphology and hypoxia activity in skeletal metastases of ER(+) and ER(-) breast cancer.

  PMID 39572705 · PMC11582807 · Communications biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ER− MDA-MB-231 breast cancer forms more osteolytic bone metastases than ER+ MCF-7 breast cancer

  mcf-7 breast bone tumor-free immunofluorescence co-culture rna-seq

• Involvement of N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN genes in breast cancer and muscle cell development.

  PMID 38859961 · PMC11163233 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  N4BP2L1, PLEKHA4, and BEGAIN, normally highly expressed in breast myoepithelial and smooth muscle cells, are significantly downregulated in breast tumor tissue of a 50-patient cohort

  breast paired embryonic hesc-derived bulk rt-qpcr immunofluorescence

• Intrinsic genetic characteristics determine tumor-modifying capacity of fibroblasts: matrix metalloproteinase-3 5A/5A genotype enhances breast cancer cell invasion.

  PMID 17922906 · PMC2242664 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor-derived fibroblasts promote higher levels of breast cancer cell invasion than normal fibroblasts

  breast conditioned mda-mb-468 genomic invasion immunofluorescence pcr-rflp

• Targeted disruption of the S1P2 sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor gene leads to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma formation.

  PMID 19903857 · PMC2973841 · Cancer research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S1P2−/− mice develop clonal B-cell lymphomas with age, with ~half affected by 1.5-2 years

  s1p2− lymphoma bone genomic necropsy histology flow

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COL6A3+ TAFs are a distinct matrix-fibroblast subset significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant antiangiogenic+ICB combination therapy

  gbm ffpe col6a3+ thp-1 scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• Does tumorigenesis select for or against mutations of the DNA repair-associated genes BRCA2 and MRE11?: considerations from somatic mutations in microsatellite unstable (MSI) gastrointestinal cancers.

  PMID 16417627 · PMC1382246 · BMC genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Heterozygous truncating BRCA2 mutations occur in 47% (7/15) of gastrointestinal MSI cancer cell lines/xenografts, a higher rate than previously reported

  gastrointestinal ls174t pl3 msi gene rt-pcr rad51

• FRMD8 inhibits tumor metastasis in BRCA1-associated TNBC by negatively regulating tmTNF-α.

  PMID 40619383 · PMC12229025 · Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Low FRMD8 expression in BRCA1-mutant breast cancer cells significantly enhances metastatic potential to various organs

  tnbc geo breast frmd8 bulk meta-analysis single-cell

• Identification of BRCA1 missense substitutions that confer partial functional activity: potential moderate risk variants?

  PMID 18036263 · PMC2246181 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Revised multifactorial likelihood analysis incorporating ER, CK5/6, and CK14 tumor immunohistochemistry improves classification of BRCA1 unclassified variants

  archival kconfab myriad lymphoblastoid immunohistochemistry multifactorial co-occurrence

• Somatic mutations of the Parkinson's disease-associated gene PARK2 in glioblastoma and other human malignancies.

  PMID 19946270 · PMC4002225 · Nature genetics · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PARK2 is a frequently and specifically targeted gene within recurrent 6q25.2-q27 copy number losses in glioblastoma and colon cancer

  colon gbm cancer dbtrg array pcr colony

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• Patient-Derived Meningioma Organoids: A Reliable Model for Studying Human Tumor Pathophysiology.

  PMID 39941893 · PMC11817449 · Cancers · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A standardized, reproducible protocol can establish meningioma organoids (MEN-Os) from patient-resected tumor tissue without mechanical/enzymatic dissociation, using serum-free medium lacking growth factors or exogenous ECM.

  patient-resected men-os parent oct-embedded organoid brightfield h&e

• An oncogenomics-based in vivo RNAi screen identifies tumor suppressors in liver cancer.

  PMID 19012953 · PMC2990916 · Cell · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  shRNA pools targeting genes recurrently deleted in human HCC accelerate hepatocarcinogenesis in vivo, whereas randomly selected shRNA pools do not.

  hepatocellular p53 genomic hepatoma array-based pooled shrna

• Machine learning-based identification of an immunotherapy-related signature to enhance outcomes and immunotherapy responses in melanoma.

  PMID 39355255 · PMC11442245 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  66 consensus immunotherapy prognostic genes (CITPGs) were identified from the intersection of WGCNA modules, immunotherapy responder-vs-non-responder DEGs, and tumor-vs-normal DEGs

  melanoma tcga-skcm prjeb23709 microarray wgcna differential consensus

• CD155/PVR plays a key role in cell motility during tumor cell invasion and migration.

  PMID 15471548 · PMC524493 · BMC cancer · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A FALI-coupled scFv antibody library screen identifies CD155 (poliovirus receptor) as a mediator of tumor cell invasion

  ht1080 u87mg normal 96-well transwell immunoblot

• Solute exchange through gap junctions lessens the adverse effects of inactivating mutations in metabolite-handling genes.

  PMID 36107487 · PMC9534548 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer (CRC) cells are coupled by gap junctions assembled predominantly from Cx26 (GJB2)

  colorectal normal crc microarray tcga single-cell

• PDGFRA defines the mesenchymal stem cell Kaposi's sarcoma progenitors by enabling KSHV oncogenesis in an angiogenic environment.

  PMID 31881074 · PMC6980685 · PLoS pathogens · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pα(+)S (PDGFRA-positive/SCA-1-positive) bone marrow-derived MSCs are KS spindle-cell progenitors

  bone k-pα nude flow viral immunofluorescence

• The application of basic science to translational cancer research.

  PMID 12620114 · PMC151297 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sister-chromatid separation at anaphase is triggered by degradation of securin, releasing the protease separase to cleave the cohesin ring holding chromatids together

  yeast lamin tumor breast protease-cleavage rad53 brdu

• Breast cancer proteomics reveals correlation between estrogen receptor status and differential phosphorylation of PGRMC1.

  PMID 18922159 · PMC2614521 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PGRMC1 protein spots are differentially abundant between ER-negative and ER-positive breast tumors, with two of three spots more abundant in ER-negative tumors

  sections pooled mcf7 paraffin-embedded 2d-page shrimp viability