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).

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• A multi-omic single-cell landscape of perinatal mouse skin maps lineage specification and reveals shared dynamics in human fetal skin.

  PMID 41998142 · PMC13144478 · Experimental & molecular medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Integrated scATAC/scRNA multi-omics analysis of developing mouse skin identifies gene network axes underlying skin lineage specification

  dorsal scrna-seq skin fibroblast scatac-seq scrna-seq spatial

• Dissecting the immunosuppressive microenvironment of LAMA3 + malignant cells and SPP1 + macrophages in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41845425 · PMC13104401 · Journal of translational medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A LAMA3+ epithelial subpopulation (C3) enriched at the invasive tumor front shows strong EMT signatures and is associated with poor prognosis

  escc epithelial scrna-seq tcga-escc scrna-seq spatial infercnv

• Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analyses reveal tumor microenvironment-driven proliferation of NF2-associated vestibular schwannomas.

  PMID 41957607 · PMC13200446 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  NF2-VS tumors comprise 12 major cell lineages with distinct TME composition between Gardner and Wishart phenotypes

  vestibular fresh nf2-vs fibroblast scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• 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

• Heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 37320872 · PMC10277597 · Translational oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Seven distinct CAF subsets exist in HNSCC, identified via integration of scRNA-seq, bulk transcriptomic, and spatial transcriptomic data.

  hnscc tcga-hnscc caf fibroblast single-cell bulk spatial

• POSTN(+) fibroblast‑secreted small extracellular vesicles drive macrophage M2 polarization through BMP4/BMPR2/Smad signaling.

  PMID 41645751 · PMC12891935 · Oncology reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of two HNSCC scRNA-seq datasets reveals two distinct fibroblast subtypes: POSTN- and POSTN+ fibroblasts

  hnscc tcga-hnscc oscc oscc-derived single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• 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

• Therapeutic manipulation and spatial quantification of the tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer.

  PMID 41907400 · PMC13018967 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer fibroblast heterogeneity can be distilled into two overarching, transcriptomically distinct CAF populations marked by PDGFRA+ and ACTA2+ expression

  crc colonic gemm scrna-seq multiplex bulk

• Ensemble of Time-Evolving SASP Gene Sets Identifies IGFBP7 and CDKN1A as a Potential Marker Pair for Senescent Fibroblast Subpopulations Across Tissues.

  PMID 41977201 · PMC13073673 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  SASP genes are not uniformly expressed in all senescent fibroblasts but only in specific subpopulations, indicating combinatorial and heterogeneous SASP expression.

  wi-38 lung skin eye scrna-seq computational

• An integrated single-cell and spatial proteotranscriptomics atlas of fibroblast-driven immunoregulation within the human adult oral cavity.

  PMID 42147490 · PMC13179517 · Cell press blue · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fibroblasts act as central regulators of structural immunity in the human oral cavity, forming peri-epithelial hubs enriched in effector cytokines

  oral ffpe scrna-seq integrated scrna-seq spatial ligand-receptor

• Learning collective multicellular dynamics with an interacting mean field neural SDE model.

  PMID 41564117 · PMC12854464 · PLoS computational biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  scIMF models multicellular dynamics as interacting diffusion processes using a McKean-Vlasov SDE solved via Neural SDE, with a Transformer-based cell-wise attention mechanism approximating the distribution-dependent drift term

  zebrafish embryonic pancreatic temporal umap cell-wise

• Identification of Poor Prognosis-Associated Fibroblast Subpopulation Signature Genes Utilizing the Scissor Algorithm to Classify Colorectal Cancer Subtypes and Evaluate the Immune Landscape.

  PMID 41787974 · PMC13180509 · Gut and liver · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Scissor+ fibroblast subpopulations significantly correlated with prognosis were identified in CRC using the Scissor algorithm integrating scRNA-seq, bulk RNA-seq, and clinical data

  tcga gse39582 gse166555 scrna-seq bulk single-cell cell-cell

• Fibroblast-associated CTHRC1 as a key indicator of recurrence risk in prostate cancer.

  PMID 41832493 · PMC13101373 · World journal of surgical oncology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Pathological T stage, N stage, Gleason score, and TP53 mutation are associated with higher PRAD recurrence risk

  tcga geo prad scrna-seq bulk single-cell cell-cell

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of dermal fibroblasts demonstrates culture-induced changes and variable persistence of keloid disease features.

  PMID 42058918 · PMC13123497 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Fibroblast culture leads to subtype assimilation, with in vivo heterogeneity persisting only minimally by passage 4

  dermal mesenchymal stromal patient-matched single-cell bulk qpcr

• Single-cell and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• 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

• Tenascin C(+) myofibroblasts exacerbate vascular neointimal hyperplasia by propagation of nerve-macrophage interactions in mice.

  PMID 41617709 · PMC12960667 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct population of Tnc+ myofibroblasts (cluster iFb5) emerges from adventitial fibroblasts during ligation-induced neointimal hyperplasia

  carotid adventitial pdgfrα nih-3t3 scrna-seq spatial immunofluorescence

• TiRank prioritizes phenotypic niches in tumor microenvironment for clinical biomarker discovery.

  PMID 41689080 · PMC12910759 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  TiRank is a framework that integrates scRNA-seq, ST, and bulk transcriptomes using an REO-transformation module and multitask transfer learning to align data into a unified embedding space for prioritizing clinically relevant spatial niches

  benchmark pan-cancer gastric independent scrna-seq bulk spatial

• Lineage commitment of dermal fibroblast progenitors is controlled by Kdm6b-mediated chromatin demethylation.

  PMID 37602956 · PMC10548174 · The EMBO journal · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  E14.5 DFPs have a repressed transcriptional profile marked by high H3K27me3 and inaccessible chromatin at lineage-specific genes

  skin dermal single-cell chamber chip-seq