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).

• Ectopic expression of BEX genes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

  PMID 40811813 · PMC12830129 · Blood advances · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Bex1 (and to a lesser extent Bex4) is ectopically expressed in Pten-deficient mouse T-ALL blasts

  thymocytes thymocyte t-all normal scrna-seq rt-qpcr bulk

• 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

• Decoding the tumor microenvironment and molecular mechanism: unraveling cervical cancer subpopulations and prognostic signatures through scRNA-Seq and bulk RNA-seq analyses.

  PMID 38482016 · PMC10933018 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  C3 PLP2+ Tumor Epithelial Progenitor Cells are a noteworthy subpopulation exerting a pivotal influence on CC differentiation and progression

  cervical tcga siha scrna-seq bulk rt-qpcr

• Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Multicellular Ecosystem of Nucleus Pulposus during Degeneration Progression.

  PMID 34825784 · PMC8787427 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Human NP contains six transcriptionally distinct NPC subpopulations: HT-CLNPs, effector NPCs, homeostatic NPCs, regulatory NPCs, fibroNPCs, and adhesion NPCs

  npcs scrna-seq-derived ht-clnp-i g-mdscs single-cell rt-qpcr immunohistochemistry

• Fundamental and unique roles of PLAC1 in the regulation of rat and human trophoblast cell development.

  PMID 42007670 · PMC13245914 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 9 setups

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  Plac1 transcripts are expressed in the junctional zone of the rat placenta and in intrauterine invasive trophoblast cells

  placenta placentation uterine-placental plac1 rt-qpcr situ single-cell

• TBL1X/TBL1XR1 govern β-cell identity through a PAX6-containing gene regulatory network.

  PMID 42020373 · PMC13102947 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TBL/R1 are crucial regulators of β-cell identity and determinants of diabetes development and progression

  pancreatic fed paraffin-embedded pancreas qpcr blood oral

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells reveals the transcriptome profile of Microtus fortis immune cells during the early phase of infection with Schistosoma japonicum.

  PMID 41675929 · PMC12886473 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  Both innate and adaptive immune responses were activated in M. fortis peripheral blood at 10 dpi, while activation was not obvious in Kunming mice at the same time point

  pbmcs single-cell qpcr

• 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

• An engineered tumor organoid model reveals cellular identity and signaling trajectories underlying SFPQ-TFE3 driven translocation RCC.

  PMID 40463960 · PMC12131257 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SFPQ-TFE3 expression is sufficient to transform normal kidney epithelial tubuloids into tRCC

  kidney tubuloids immunodeficient tub rt-qpcr western histology

• 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

• TEAD4 and RXRA Regulate the Function of Nucleus Pulposus Cells in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Via the TNF-α/NF-κB Pathway: An Integrated Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq, Bulk RNA-Seq, and In Vitro Validation.

  PMID 41511606 · PMC12995935 · Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TEAD4 and RXRA play critical roles in IDD progression, likely regulating NP cell behavior and ECM metabolism via the TNF-α/NF-κB pathway

  differential il-1β-induced scrna-seq bulk gsea

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Sensitizer-Induced Basophils Accelerate Skin Re-Epithelialization via IL-4/IL-13-Mediated Macrophage Polarization.

  PMID 41787818 · PMC13139821 · Allergy · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Basophils accumulate in wounded and oxazolone (OXA)-sensitized skin, peaking around day 3–6 post-injury

  skin ear dorsal mcpt8-ct single-cell flow rt-qpcr

• PAH-former: Transfer learning for efficient discovery of pulmonary arterial hypertension-associated genes.

  PMID 41790620 · PMC12965534 · PloS one · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  PAH-former, a Geneformer model fine-tuned on public PAH scRNA-seq data, can perform in silico perturbation to identify and rank candidate PAH disease-associated genes

  pah scrna-seq pah-former candidate scrna-seq transfer perturbation

• Alternative polyadenylation links RNA processing to iron metabolism in human erythropoiesis.

  PMID 41805127 · PMC12972907 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CPSF6 facilitates erythropoiesis; its depletion impairs heme synthesis and causes intracellular iron deficiency

  cd34+ cd34+-derived bone erythroid scrna-seq bulk long-read

• 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

• 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