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).

• Hereditary chronic pancreatitis induced plasticity cooperates with mutant Kras in early pancreatic carcinogenesis.

  PMID 41419303 · PMC13151493 · Gut · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KC-Cpa1 mice show markedly increased pancreatic remodelling, fibrosis and metaplastic/PanIN lesion formation compared with KC mice

  pancreas cre acinar scrna-seq histology bulk single-cell

• Hippo signaling differentially regulates distal progenitor subpopulations and their transitional states to construct the mammalian lungs.

  PMID 41932885 · PMC13219436 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A fraction (15-50%) of the distal SOX9+ tip progenitor subdomain is sufficient to direct lung outgrowth through branch bifurcation, providing a mechanism for lung size control

  lung whole-mount immunofluorescence single-cell

• The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development.

  PMID 41610256 · PMC7618896 · Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Combined single-nucleus RNA-seq and ATAC-seq atlases of cerebellum development were generated/integrated across six mammals (human, bonobo, macaque, marmoset, mouse, opossum)

  developing opossum marmoset cultures single-nucleus bulk gene

• The motor neuron m6A repertoire governs neuronal homeostasis and FTO inhibition mitigates ALS symptom manifestation.

  PMID 40307231 · PMC12043976 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  m6A hypomethylation (not hypermethylation) is consistently associated with ALS across patient iPSC-MNs, postmortem tissue, and independent transcriptomic datasets

  familial wild-type hek293t motor transcriptomic m6a shrna

• 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

• The cold-induced lipokine 12,13-diHOME promotes fatty acid transport into brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 28346411 · PMC5699924 · Nature medicine · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  12,13-diHOME is a cold-induced lipokine that stimulates BAT activity

  plasma bat serum mice lc-ms correlation 18f-fdg

• Stromal androgen signaling acts as tumor niches to drive prostatic basal epithelial progenitor-initiated oncogenesis.

  PMID 36323713 · PMC9630272 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of AR in stromal Gli1-lineage cells diminishes prostate epithelial oncogenesis and tumor development in vivo

  ugm hi-myc prostate hmyctg+ genetically single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Genetic Dissection of Tissue-Specific Apolipoprotein E Function for Hypercholesterolemia and Diet-Induced Obesity.

  PMID 26695075 · PMC4687855 · PloS one · 2015 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Hepatocyte apoE is required for normal VLDL production and protects against diet-induced dyslipidemia

  liver plasma pooled real-time western elisa

• A mouse to human search for plasma proteome changes associated with pancreatic tumor development.

  PMID 18547137 · PMC2504036 · PLoS medicine · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  GEM models combined with in-depth proteomic analysis provide a useful strategy to identify candidate cancer markers applicable to human disease with potential for early detection

  plasma immunodepleted pancreatic shotgun two-dimensional immunodepletion

• A role of SCN9A in human epilepsies, as a cause of febrile seizures and as a potential modifier of Dravet syndrome.

  PMID 19763161 · PMC2730533 · PLoS genetics · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A heterozygous SCN9A missense mutation (p.N641Y) cosegregates with febrile seizures in the large K4425 family and is absent from ethnically matched population controls

  family k4425 embryonic scn9a-n641y linkage copy deletion

• Estrogen Production in Pancreatic Cancer Shapes a Tumor-Suppressive Stromal Microenvironment.

  PMID 41258799 · PMC12862343 · Cancer research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Serum levels of stromal biomarkers associated with favorable outcomes were significantly higher in female patients with PDAC than in male patients

  pdac pdx magnetic bioinformatic single-nucleus

• Annexin A13 Protects Against Acute Kidney Injury by Inactivating TGF-β/Smad3 Signaling.

  PMID 41486854 · PMC12915081 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ANXA13 is selectively downregulated in the kidneys of AKI patients and IRI- or cisplatin-induced AKI mice, primarily in proximal tubular cells

  kidney aki renal hek293t rna-seq immunohistochemistry serum

• 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

• 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

• miR-203 facilitates timely cell fate transitions via epigenetic modulation during early embryogenesis.

  PMID 41811946 · PMC12978216 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  miR-203 is required for a timely totipotency-to-pluripotency transition during early mouse embryogenesis

  preimplantation 8-cell mice mir-203 qrt-pcr genotyping time-lapse

• Gli1-expressing stromal cells are highly reparative precursors of long-lived chondroprogenitors in the fetal murine limb.

  PMID 41253754 · PMC12627582 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Gli1+ fetal cells are the precursors of postnatal long-lived chondroprogenitors (LLCPs) in the growth plate

  fetal left-cart-p21 gli1-creer cartilage single-nuclei scenic bulk

• Notch3 regulates pericyte phenotypic plasticity in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41618002 · PMC12960917 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Murine tumor pericytes originate from normal tissue-resident pericytes that proliferate inside tumors

  aom crc pdgfrβ-creert2 notch3-creert2 scrna-seq facs lineage

• The transcription factor EHF promotes the maturation and immunosuppression of conventional dendritic cells.

  PMID 41730908 · PMC13039115 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EHF orchestrates an immunosuppressive maturation program in cDC1s and cDC2s downstream of TLR7/8/9 sensing of self-nucleic acids

  ehf facs-sorted dss-induced lethal cd4+

• 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