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).

• The transcription factor HHEX maintains glucocorticoid levels and protects adrenals from androgen-induced lipid depletion.

  PMID 41519914 · PMC12891536 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  HHEX is the most enriched transcription factor in glucocorticoid-producing zona fasciculata (zF) cells, conserved across mouse, rat, and human adrenal

  sf1-cre-high adrenocortical scrna-seq rnascope immunohistochemistry

• Temporal control of progenitor competence shapes maturation in GABAergic neuron development in mice.

  PMID 40629142 · PMC12321585 · Nature neuroscience · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Ganglionic eminence (ventral) progenitors maintain stable differentiation competence throughout neurogenesis, generating a consistent set of postmitotic precursor states at all stages, unlike dorsal cortical progenitors whose differentiation competence changes gradually.

  dlx5 progenitors sections cortical scrna-seq trackerseq flashtag

• Single-Cell RNA Analysis of Murine Osteosarcoma Uncovers Skp2 Function in Metastasis, Genomic Instability, and Immune Activation and Reveals Additional Target Pathways.

  PMID 41877584 · PMC13103941 · Cancer research communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Skp2 KO improves survival, drives apoptosis, and induces antitumor immunity in Rb1/Trp53-deficient murine osteosarcoma

  tumors same osteosarcoma skp2 scrna-seq mutation copy-number

• 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

• Microglial Fkbp5 Impairs Post-Stroke Vascular Integrity and Regeneration by Promoting Yap1-Mediated Glycolysis and Oxidative Phosphorylation.

  PMID 41355597 · PMC13042415 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A post-stroke perivascular microglia niche (stroke-VAM) is identified, characterized by low M2 marker expression and elevated glycolysis, OXPHOS, and phagocytic activity

  ipsilateral cx3cr1-cre peri-infarct ischemic scrna-seq snrna-seq immunofluorescence

• 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

• 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

• TOPK Suppresses the CD8(+) T Cell Antitumor Immunity via Modulation of IRF5 Expression.

  PMID 41868885 · PMC13003159 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A TOPK+ subset of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells exists in melanoma at higher frequency than in normal lymph nodes and shows suppressed cytotoxic/cytokine programs.

  tumor-infiltrating melanoma b16-f10 unspecified scrna-seq flow multiplex

• Enteroendocrine cell lineages that differentially control feeding and gut motility.

  PMID 36810133 · PMC10032656 · eLife · 2023 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Vil1-p2a-FlpO knock-in mice combined with lineage-specific Cre lines enable highly selective intersectional genetic access to major enteroendocrine cell lineages (serotonin/enterochromaffin, GLP1, CCK, somatostatin, GIP) in vivo

  neurod1-cre neurog3-cre intestinal vil1-p2a-flpo single-cell fluorescence-activated two-color

• 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

• Small molecule inhibition rescues the skeletal dysplasia phenotype of Trpv4 mutant mice.

  PMID 41574606 · PMC12892883 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Chondrocyte-specific (Col2a1-Cre-driven) expression of the p.R594H Trpv4 mutation reproduces the human TRPV4 skeletal dysplasia phenotype in mice, including short stature, long bone and craniofacial abnormalities, and vertebral defects.

  col2a1-cre proximal growth cervical radiography histology rnascope

• 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

• Base barrier cells provide compartmentalization of choroid plexus, brain and CSF.

  PMID 41680326 · PMC12971494 · Nature neuroscience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct fibroblast population, ChP base barrier cells (BBCs, formerly type II fibroblasts), exists at the base of the choroid plexus, separate from ChP stromal (type I) fibroblasts

  lateral brain mesp1-cre chp scrna-seq multiplex immunofluorescence

• Aurkb deficiency disrupts microglial development, homeostasis and hinders remyelination following cuprizone-induced demyelination.

  PMID 41704758 · PMC12907124 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aurkb is upregulated in a subset of fetal/neonatal microglia and in microglia following CPZ-induced demyelination and in MS patient microglia

  microglia brain neonatal corpus scrna-seq western immunofluorescence

• Paneth cell SIRT1 deficiency increases intestinal stress resistance by modulating the gut microbiota.

  PMID 41826553 · PMC13076647 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a novel Paneth-cell-specific SIRT1 knockout mouse model (SIRT1 PKO, Sirt1 f/f;Defa6-Cre+)

  small immune facs-sorted ileum single-cell facs qpcr

• Aging-dependent microglial heterogeneity worsens outcomes in models of traumatic brain injury.

  PMID 41926211 · PMC13262727 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aged TBI brains predominantly harbor proinflammatory NLRP3+ microglia, whereas young TBI brains harbor neuroprotective Lysozyme+ microglia

  injured sorted facs-purified cas9-gfp scrna-seq atac-seq untargeted

• Single-cell transcriptomics of human embryos identifies multiple sympathoblast lineages with potential implications for neuroblastoma origin.

  PMID 33833454 · PMC7610777 · Nature genetics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In human embryos, intra-adrenal sympathoblasts are directly derived from nerve-associated Schwann cell precursors (SCPs), similarly to chromaffin cells

  embryo sympathoadrenal embryonic adrenal scrna-seq velocity immunohistochemistry

• 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

• Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer.

  PMID 41565826 · PMC12960256 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The HPCS is a transcriptionally distinct cancer cell state that functions as a hub for reciprocal transitions between other cancer cell states

  autochthonous kpfrt gfp+ sorted single-cell flow immunofluorescence

• 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