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).

• PW1(+) cells give rise to cardiac adipocytes during development and myofibroblasts following injury.

  PMID 42035143 · PMC13255232 · Stem cell research & therapy · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PW1+ cardiac mesenchymal cells serve as a progenitor population that gives rise to cardiac adipocytes during postnatal heart development

  heart pw1 sorted non-cardiomyocyte quantitative genetic adipogenesis

• MerTK-triggered TGFβ1 autocrine signal regulates microglial response to neurodegeneration.

  PMID 41634038 · PMC12976283 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Microglial response to pathological axonal degeneration (optic nerve injury) depends on the phagocytic receptor MerTK

  optic facs-sorted microglia co-immunostaining qpcr bulk

• 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

• Fundamental and unique roles of PLAC1 in the regulation of rat and human trophoblast cell development.

  PMID 42007670 · PMC13245914 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Plac1 transcripts are expressed in the junctional zone of the rat placenta and in intrauterine invasive trophoblast cells

  placenta placentation uterine-placental plac1 rt-qpcr situ single-cell

• Tbx5 drives Aldh1a2 expression to regulate a RA-Hedgehog-Wnt gene regulatory network coordinating cardiopulmonary development.

  PMID 34643182 · PMC8555986 · eLife · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Tbx5 directly maintains Aldh1a2 expression in the foregut lateral plate mesoderm via an evolutionarily conserved intronic enhancer

  e9.5 xenopus bulk rt-qpcr whole-mount

• Microglia-containing cerebral organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells for the study of neurological diseases.

  PMID 36936782 · PMC10014280 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel protocol using FGF/EGF/heparin growth factor supplementation and 10% CO2 culture generates cerebral organoids containing neurons, astrocytes, and microglia from iPSCs/hESCs

  hesc-derived hesc als-pdc-affected cerebral microarray immunostaining bulk

• 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

• GATA2 controls alveolar macrophage inflammatory gene expression and metabolic function.

  PMID 41712459 · PMC13134736 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GATA2 deficiency promotes enhanced inflammatory gene expression and metabolic dysfunction in alveolar macrophages in response to type 2 stimuli

  bal cd11c+ ams lung flow immunostaining bodipy

• Müller glial and microglial responses coupled to recovery of cone photoreceptors following limited cone ablation in zebrafish retina.

  PMID 41691075 · PMC12992573 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  24-hour 10mM Mtz immersion of adult gnat2:nfsb-mCherry zebrafish causes death of only a limited number of cone photoreceptors rather than widespread ablation

  retinal retina dissociated live tunel immunofluorescence rt-qpcr

• Cardiac conduction system malformations in heterotaxy result from dysregulated Pitx2 expression.

  PMID 41734036 · PMC13043103 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryptic-/- embryos (right isomerism model) develop bilateral sinoatrial nodes and an ectopic anterior AV node and bundle, accompanied by reduced Pitx2 expression

  cryptic embryo pitx2 lefty1 situ immunostaining cardiac

• SLIT3 fragments orchestrate neurovascular expansion and thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 41881972 · PMC13018599 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Adipocyte progenitors secrete SLIT3, which is cleaved into SLIT3-N and SLIT3-C fragments that independently drive angiogenesis and sympathetic innervation, respectively

  bat brown single-cell qpcr western

• A single-nucleotide enhancer mutation overrides chromosomal sex to drive XX male development.

  PMID 41957362 · PMC13066550 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A 3 bp deletion or a 1 bp insertion in the Enh13 SOX9 binding site causes complete XX female-to-male sex reversal in adult homozygous mice

  c57bl6 6-week-old 6-week e12.5 crispr-cas9 gross immunostaining

• CITED2 is a druggable epigenetic switch coupling neuronal maturation to regenerative decline.

  PMID 41731079 · PMC13083982 · EMBO molecular medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The transition from immature non-polarized to mature polarized DRG neurons (E12.5-E17.5) is associated with loss of gene expression signatures needed for regenerative growth competence.

  drg sciatic rna-seq integrated immunofluorescence

• A hormetic transcriptional program coregulates invasion, proliferation and dormancy to define metastatic potential.

  PMID 41781391 · PMC13077004 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Prrx1 is a master regulator of dissemination that, beyond promoting invasion, represses proliferation (via Ccnd1/2, Cdkn2a/b/c) and activates a dormancy program (Gas6, Mme, Ogn)

  infiltrating metabric facs-sorted pymt immunohistochemistry bioinformatic rt-qpcr

• Endogenous Fatty Acid Synthesis Drives Brown Adipose Tissue Involution.

  PMID 33440156 · PMC8240962 · Cell reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Endogenous fatty acid synthesis (DNL), regulated by ChREBP, is the central driver of BAT whitening/involution at thermoneutrality.

  bat fatty lipidomics qpcr

• GSDME-mediated pyroptosis promotes the progression and associated inflammation of atherosclerosis.

  PMID 36807553 · PMC9938904 · Nature communications · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GSDME-mediated pyroptosis promotes atherosclerosis progression and its associated inflammation

  carotid macrophages gsdme− apoe− single-cell transmission immunohistochemistry

• Loss of mutual protection between human osteoclasts and chondrocytes in damaged joints initiates osteoclast-mediated cartilage degradation by MMPs.

  PMID 34811438 · PMC8608887 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Human osteoclasts differentiate on cartilage, expressing osteoclast markers, and visibly damage the cartilage surface without forming resorption pits or F-actin rings as seen on dentine.

  cd14+ osteoclasts conditioned osteoclast gag direct

• Biphasic expression of thyroid hormone receptor TRβ1 in mammalian retina and anterior ocular tissues.

  PMID 37033230 · PMC10076699 · Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TRβ1 shows a biphasic, late-peaking expression profile in retina that contrasts with the early embryonic peak of TRβ2

  retina fetal retinal cones rna-seq lacz immunofluorescence

• Stem cell-associated osteogenic deficiency causes craniofacial deformities with progeroid accumulation of prelamin A.

  PMID 41632539 · PMC13041684 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lmna L648R mutation causes multiple suture craniosynostosis (AF, PF, COR) occurring under low bone density, contrasting with conventional synostosis caused by excessive ossification

  skull calvarial suture p7-p10 micro-ct h&e brdu

• Targeting the Lipid Metabolism Proteins FASN and GPAM in Alveolar Type II Cells Decreases Lung Metastasis.

  PMID 41778850 · PMC7619144 · Cancer discovery · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  AT2 cells and surfactant lipids (e.g., PC, PE, PI, PG) are enriched in the vicinity of breast cancer lung metastases in both patients and mice

  postmortem lungs lung at2 immunohistochemistry maldi-msi longitudinal