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).

• 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

• 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

• The macrophage entry mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 mediated by surface CD98/TMPRSS11E complex is associated with the cellular tropism toward proinflammatory M1 and pathogenesis.

  PMID 41877147 · PMC13137717 · Respiratory research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD98 (CD98hc/SLC3A2) is a novel receptor for the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein

  thp-1-derived 293t structures thp-1 co-ip co-immunoprecipitation molecular

• Chikungunya virus persists in joint-associated macrophages and promotes chronic disease in mice.

  PMID 41922840 · PMC13171603 · Nature microbiology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Inflammatory macrophages accumulate in joint-associated tissue during the chronic stage of CHIKV infection and show an activated, pro-inflammatory, MHC-II+ transcriptional programme

  ankle ipsilateral computational pfa-fixed rt-qpcr single-cell gene

• 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

• Comprehensive analysis for the role of macrophage-driven genes in abdominal aortic aneurysm.

  PMID 41815567 · PMC12973086 · Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SMU1 is identified as a novel macrophage-related gene associated with AAA development, serving as a potential diagnostic biomarker and therapeutic target

  aaa macrophage-related merged gwas single-cell bulk rt-qpcr

• Identification and validation of prognostic genes related to glycolysis and M2 macrophage in hepatocellular carcinoma: an integrated analysis of bulk RNA sequencing and single-cell RNA sequencing.

  PMID 41766871 · PMC12935947 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  52 candidate genes were identified at the intersection of glycolysis-related genes (GRGs), M2 macrophage-related genes (MRGs), and HCC-vs-control DEGs (DEGs2).

  tcga-lihc gse149614 key hcc bulk immune cox

• Ferroptotic tumor cells reprogram tumor-associated macrophage antigen presentation to enhance the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade.

  PMID 42061406 · PMC13198243 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inducing tumor-cell ferroptosis enhances anti-tumor immunity by potentiating MHC-II-dependent antigen presentation in tumor-infiltrating macrophages

  mc38 hepa1-6 bmdms tumor bulk macrophage

• LMO1 expression in neuroblastoma cells reprograms tumor-associated macrophages to promote metastasis.

  PMID 41858882 · PMC12997303 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LMO1 overexpression in MYCN-driven neuroblastoma cells reprograms tumor-associated macrophages to promote metastasis

  tumors macrophage u937 zebrafish single-cell gsva conditioned

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Dynamic changes of the immune microenvironment in ovarian cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

  PMID 41872134 · PMC13039919 · Cell death discovery · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Prostaglandin-mediated immunosuppressive microenvironment formation is a critical contributor to chemotherapy resistance following cisplatin treatment

  high-grade hgsoc bone bmdms scrna-seq cell-cell tensor