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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Genomic instability and mono-parental expression mitigate genomic shock in a cross-subgenus Leishmania hybrid.

  PMID 41918820 · PMC13034039 · NAR molecular medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  An in vitro cross between L. infantum and L. tarentolae produced a viable inter-subgenus hybrid, demonstrating genomic compatibility between highly divergent Leishmania species.

  infantum linf-gfp bone bmdms genetic flow morphological

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Integrative single-cell analysis uncovers distinct tumour microenvironment ecotypes and immune evasion across skin cancers.

  PMID 41636115 · PMC12869349 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant NARS2+NDUFC2+ melanoma cell subpopulation with reduced MHC-I expression is enriched in advanced-stage tumours and associated with worse survival and immunotherapy response.

  skin prognosis melanoma macrophage single-cell bulk immunofluorescence

• 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

• 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

• Tumour-brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory-sympathetic axis.

  PMID 41639447 · PMC12935554 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) induces increased innervation and functional/transcriptional engagement of vagal sensory neurons (VSNs)

  kras-g12d tumour-bearing vagal npy2r-ires-cre whole-mount aav neurite