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).

• SPP1(+) macrophage-driven interactions shape the tumor microenvironment in lymph node metastatic acral melanoma.

  PMID 42020397 · PMC13230793 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LN+ acral melanoma shows preferential SPP1+ signaling, including autocrine amplification within SPP1+ macrophages and paracrine interaction with S100A8+ melanoma cells via the SPP1-CD44 axis

  tumor microarray thp-1 a375 scrna-seq immunofluorescence western

• Multi-Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals That EREG-Driven TME Crosstalk Defines Anti-EGFR Response in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 42043480 · PMC13115984 · Cancer medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EGFRI eligibility (defined by left-sidedness, RAS/BRAF wild-type, MSS) stratifies cancer cell transcriptomic characteristics more strongly than sidedness alone.

  crc epcam+ aggregated cancer scrna-seq copy pseudobulk

• Divergent macrophage-regulated T cell states determine response to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine in high-risk bladder cancer.

  PMID 42081487 · PMC13262731 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BCG responders show an increase in Th17-like Th1 CD4+ T cells with greater proinflammatory cytokine expression

  bladder pbmcs cd4+ separate scrna-seq trajectory flow

• Gene regulatory network transitions reveal the central transcription factors in lung adenocarcinoma progression.

  PMID 41559111 · PMC12873405 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  NR2F1 is a central transcription factor in LUAD progression, identified independently through GRN architecture transitions and gene regulation dynamics analysis

  luad epithelial myeloid nr2f1 single-cell gene binding

• Single-cell RNA sequencing of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast reveals cellular heterogeneity and tumor microenvironment features.

  PMID 41761191 · PMC13041279 · BMC medical genomics · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  H19+ myoepithelial cells (H19+myoEpC) represent the dominant malignant subpopulation in ACCB, characterized by the majority of large-scale CNVs and high expression of oncogenic pathway genes and ligands (e.g., LAMB1, WNT6)

  tumor hnacc epithelial accb single-cell scrna-seq copy

• Role of CTGF-LRP1 in impaired healing of cesarean section incisions.

  PMID 41764198 · PMC13066582 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A specific fibroblast subgroup (FB3) in niche tissue shows LRP1 deficiency associated with reduced extracellular matrix (ECM) synthesis capacity

  myometrium adjacent sections fibroblasts single-cell hematoxylin masson's

• A pan-cancer single cell landscape reveals heterogeneity and functional diversity of double-negative T cells.

  PMID 41484771 · PMC12882460 · Molecular cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Integration of pan-cancer scRNA-seq data yields a comprehensive single-cell atlas of 157,025 high-quality DNT cells across 23 cancer types.

  tumor dnt ffpe mc38 scrna-seq tcr multiplex

• Single-Cell Multi-Tissue T Cell Clonal Dynamics Reveal Distinct Immune Coercion Landscapes in MSI and MSS Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41898550 · PMC13027115 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Immunotherapy response in CRC is better explained by TCR clonal dynamics (expansion, migration, functional transitions) than by MSI status alone

  crc single high-quality cd4+ scrna-seq tcr pseudotime

• KRT15 identified by scRNA-Seq and machine learning as stemness regulator and prognostic biomarker in ESCC.

  PMID 41907411 · PMC13018899 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A malignant epithelial subpopulation (Cluster 0) with the highest CytoTRACE stemness potential and highest EMT activity exists in ESCC scRNA-seq data

  escc degs eca109 kyse180 scrna-seq machine immunohistochemistry

• Integrative multimodal transcriptomics identifies a cancer-associated fibroblast membrane signature for predicting prognosis and therapeutic response in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41942785 · PMC13053443 · Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A PDAC-enriched myoCAF-c1 fibroblast cluster is closely associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and angiogenesis

  pdac myocaf-c1-derived tcga-paad scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Single-cell profiling reveals distinct populations of tumor-associated macrophages and metastatic tumor cells in breast cancer brain metastasis.

  PMID 42034645 · PMC13247122 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell profiling of BCBM identifies 12 tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) subtypes and 5 metastatic tumor cell (MTC) subtypes with distinct transcriptional profiles

  brain breast scrna-seq tams scrna-seq bulk copy

• Wnt3-mediated fibrosis and carcinogenesis of lung squamous cell carcinoma in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  PMID 42063567 · PMC13127482 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LUSC arising within UIP originates from AT2-derived metaplastic basal cells

  fresh-frozen same scrna-seq paired single-cell copy ligand-receptor

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• CLK1 Promotes Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Trafficking and Reprograms the Tumor Microenvironment by Activating Hippo/YAP Signaling in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41686262 · PMC13136879 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLK1 is markedly upregulated in immune-cold colorectal tumors and correlates with increased MDSC infiltration and CD8+ T-cell exclusion

  colorectal tcga-coad ct26 tumor scrna-seq bulk multiplex

• Identify GDPD3 as a key regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and prostate adenocarcinoma progression via the LPA/LPAR1/AKT axis: transcriptomic and experimental study.

  PMID 41562071 · PMC12813044 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  GDPD3 is upregulated in PRAD tumor tissue and its knockdown inhibits tumor cell proliferation, invasion, and migration

  prad tcga-prad du145 scrna-seq bulk wgcna

• Evaluating deconvolution methods using real bulk RNA-expression data for robust prognostic insights across cancer types.

  PMID 41566530 · PMC12906006 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Pseudobulk and real bulk RNA-seq deconvolution performance differ significantly, and method ranking consistency is lower between pseudobulk and real bulk than within either data type alone

  breast real colon tcga paired pseudobulk 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

• Multi-omics analyses related to unfolded protein response in prostate cancer implicate pro-tumor role of IFRD1.

  PMID 41694360 · PMC12894258 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Luminal prostate epithelial cells, especially the LE-KLK3 subpopulation, show elevated UPR activity compared to other cell types

  pca tcga-prad external scrna-seq bulk immune

• CAF-enriched COL4A6 promotes gastric cancer progression and stromal remodeling despite an inverse association in bulk transcriptomes.

  PMID 41735371 · PMC13031391 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  COL4A6 carries an inverse association (OR<1) in bulk transcriptome-based risk models despite being markedly upregulated and predominantly localized to the CAF compartment in clinical specimens

  tcga-stad gse66229 gse183904 paired bulk microarray scrna-seq