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).

• 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

• MACanalyzeR scRNAseq analysis tool reveals PPARγ(HIGH)/GDF15(HIGH) lipid-associated macrophages facilitate thermogenic expansion in BAT.

  PMID 40450001 · PMC12126529 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MACanalyzeR is a novel computational scRNAseq framework (with FoamSpotteR, MacPolarizeR, and PathAnalyzeR modules) for comprehensive monocyte/macrophage metabolic and phenotypic profiling

  bat stromal paraffin-embedded aortic bulk proteomics scrnaseq

• ChemR23 prevents phenotypic switching of vascular smooth muscle cells into macrophage-like foam cells in atherosclerosis.

  PMID 41264461 · PMC13017563 · Cardiovascular research · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Non-haematopoietic (vascular) ChemR23 deficiency increases atherosclerotic lesion size and enhances VSMC proliferation and VSMC-derived foam cell formation

  apoe adventitia-stripped advanced aortic atherosclerotic bulk single-cell

• Reciprocal regulation of fibroblast-macrophage equilibrium governs skin integrity.

  PMID 41760904 · PMC13043295 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dpt+ fibroblasts are required to maintain skin macrophage populations in vivo; their depletion reduces CD64+ and CD11c+ macrophages

  facs-sorted skin dpt+ scrna-seq flow cellchat

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mural cell-derived chemokines provide a protective niche to safeguard vascular macrophages and limit chronic inflammation.

  PMID 37652021 · PMC10588993 · Immunity · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Vascular macrophages form a spatiotemporal niche in direct contact with mural cells across microvascular and macrovascular beds

  cx3cr1-mφ rfp-rep coronary peritoneal intravital confocal single-cell

• Genetic analysis of Leishmania donovani tropism using a naturally attenuated cutaneous strain.

  PMID 24992200 · PMC4081786 · PLoS pathogens · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The CL-SL L. donovani isolate is severely attenuated for survival in visceral organs (liver, spleen) of BALB/c mice compared with the VL-SL isolate, while inducing transient footpad swelling that VL-SL does not.

  balb cl-sl donovani experimental transgenic genome

• 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

• Brown fat activation reduces hypercholesterolaemia and protects from atherosclerosis development.

  PMID 25754609 · PMC4366535 · Nature communications · 2015 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  β3-AR agonist-mediated BAT activation reduces plasma triglycerides and cholesterol and protects against atherosclerosis development in APOE*3-Leiden.CETP mice.

  e3l.cetp interscapular liver aortic indirect histology plasma

• 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

• Single-cell analysis of testicular bacterial microbiome changes during aging and effect on reproductive capacity in mice.

  PMID 41438041 · PMC12719757 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  INVADE-seq (single-cell RNA-seq combined with 16S rRNA targeting) detects a sparse but widespread bacterial presence across diverse testicular cell types

  testis young testicular invade-seq histology sperm

• Tachykinin signaling defines distinct populations of glia in the enteric nervous system.

  PMID 41512855 · PMC12832054 · Neuron · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Mucosal and muscularis glia are transcriptionally distinct populations, with mucosal glia resembling microglia and muscularis glia resembling satellite glia/astrocytes

  ileum gfp+ intestinal intestine bulk scrna-seq bayesprism

• Thermogenic adipocytes promote HDL turnover and reverse cholesterol transport.

  PMID 28422089 · PMC5399294 · Nature communications · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pharmacological (CL316,243) activation of thermogenic adipocytes increases HDL-cholesterol and reduces atherosclerosis in E3L.CETP mice, with HDL-cholesterol an independent predictor of atherosclerosis

  c57bl hdl plasma peritoneal fplc lipidomics cholesterol

• 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

• 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

• Vγ1 γδ T cells steer airway macrophages toward a profibrotic response in an autochthonous lung cancer mouse model.

  PMID 41779856 · PMC12959402 · Science advances · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Lung tumors drive expansion of both CD27+ and CD27- pulmonary γδ T cells, which acquire distinct spatial and phenotypic changes in the tumor microenvironment

  spc-cre+ microdissected sorted merged flow confocal single-cell

• Identification of markers correlating with mitochondrial function in myocardial infarction by bioinformatics.

  PMID 39775580 · PMC11684664 · PloS one · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  MitoDEGs in MI are mainly involved in mitochondrial function and ATP synthesis pathways

  left mus combined heart microarray weighted bulk