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).

• TGF-β-dependent reprogramming of amino acid metabolism induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition in non-small cell lung cancers.

  PMID 34168290 · PMC8225889 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β induces reprogramming of intracellular amino acid metabolism that is necessary to promote EMT in NSCLC cells

  a549 metabolomics real-time western

• TGF-β-mediated activation of fibroblasts in cervical cancer: implications for tumor microenvironment and prognosis.

  PMID 40124621 · PMC11929507 · PeerJ · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β signaling pathway activity is significantly increased in fibroblasts from cervical cancer samples compared to normal samples and correlates with tumor proliferation and differentiation.

  cervical tcga-cesc hela scrna-seq scrna-seq wgcna cox

• TGFβ induces an atypical EMT to evade immune mechanosurveillance in lung adenocarcinoma dormant metastasis.

  PMID 41492090 · PMC12858408 · Nature cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TGFβ initially induces a full, typical EMT (stress fibers, loss of epithelial markers, motility) in dormancy-competent LUAD progenitors that subsequently transitions into an atypical spheroidal mesenchymal state lacking actin stress fibers.

  h2087-lcc m802t4-lcc reconstructed immunofluorescence antibody-mediated

• Single cell snapshot analyses under proper representation reveal that epithelial-mesenchymal transition couples at G1 and G2/M.

  PMID 41611829 · PMC12894973 · Communications biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  TGF-β induced EMT in MCF10A cells follows two broad paths that arise from coupling between cell cycle and EMT at either the G1 or G2/M phase

  mcf10a scrna-seq vector pseudotime

• TGF-β mediates epigenetic control of innate antiviral responses and SIV reservoir size.

  PMID 41862649 · PMC13043299 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Combo treatment (anti-IL-10 + anti-PD-1) induces IFN/antiviral gene signatures pre-ATI that are inversely correlated with CA-vDNA, CA-vRNA and 2-LTR circles post-ATI

  lnmcs plasma cd4+ rhesus bulk high-dimensional plasma

• Analysis of the TGF beta functional pathway in epithelial ovarian carcinoma.

  PMID 11531253 · PMC2364123 · British journal of cancer · 2001 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  IGFIIR, TGFβ1 and TGFβRII are proposed to function as a unit in the TGFβ growth inhibitory pathway

  epithelial tumor genomic ovarian sscp sequencing pcr

• Anterior diffuse retinoblastoma: mutational analysis and immunofluorescence staining.

  PMID 19653712 · PMC2810483 · Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Anterior diffuse retinoblastoma, traditionally considered sporadic/nonheritable, can arise from a germline RB1 mutation and thus may be heritable

  enucleated tumor anterior immunofluorescence rb1 fine-needle

• BMP and NODAL paracrine signalling regulate the totipotent-like cell state in embryonic stem cells.

  PMID 41660012 · PMC12876259 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  BMP and NODAL (TGF-β) paracrine signalling are key routes of intercellular communication that respectively enhance or diminish the totipotent-like cell (TLC) state in mouse ESCs

  escs esc scrna-seq cellchat differential

• 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

• Spatially resolved osteoblast-traced transcriptomics uncovers TGF-β as a combination target with sclerostin in osteoporosis.

  PMID 41927532 · PMC13046724 · Bone research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Spatially resolved osteoblast-traced transcriptomics (lineage tracing + SLACS) identifies TGF-β signaling as a regulator of osteoblast activation state on quiescent bone surfaces

  dmp1-creert2 gfp+ spatial mc3t3-e1 spatially cell-type gsea

• Nucleosome regulatory dynamics in response to TGFβ.

  PMID 24771338 · PMC4066760 · Nucleic acids research · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SuMMIt, a Bayesian strand-based mixture model requiring support from both ends of sequenced fragments, enables precise nucleosome mid-position calling, fuzziness scoring and between-condition change detection.

  hepatocellular hepg2 130-bp mnase strand-specific taqman

• 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

• Analyses of the APC and TGF-beta type II receptor genes, and microsatellite instability in mucosal colorectal carcinomas.

  PMID 9330602 · PMC5921495 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1997 · 5 claims · 3 setups

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  APC gene mutations occur in a substantial proportion (34.0%) of mucosal colorectal carcinomas, indicating APC involvement from the beginning of tumorigenesis in many early colorectal carcinomas

  mucosal apc tgf-β microsatellite

• 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

• Quantitative mass spectrometry of diabetic kidney tubules identifies GRAP as a novel regulator of TGF-beta signaling.

  PMID 19836472 · PMC2829334 · Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Label-free 2D-LC-MS/MS quantitative proteomics identified 476 significantly differentially expressed proteins in kidney tubules of diabetic OVE26 mice versus control mice

  kidney hk11 list 2d-lc-ms immunoblot immunohistochemistry

• Mutational analyses of multiple target genes in histologically heterogeneous gastric cancer with microsatellite instability.

  PMID 10081489 · PMC5921733 · Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann · 1998 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  MSI frequency in gastric cancers with histological heterogeneity was 35% (7/20 cases) and 28% (11/40 tumor DNAs), consistent with prior gastric cancer MSI studies.

  formalin-fixed msi-positive surgically microsatellite pcr-sscp histopathological

• Genetics of osteoarticular disorders, Florence, Italy, 22-23 February 2002.

  PMID 12223106 · PMC128940 · Arthritis research · 2002 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OP and OA are common, polygenic, multifactorial quantitative disorders influenced by both low-penetrance genetic variants and environmental factors

  patients twin families dutch association magnetic genome-wide

• RNAseq analysis of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis reveals divergent regulation of canonical dauer pathways.

  PMID 23145190 · PMC3493385 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2012 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  S. stercoralis possesses homologs of nearly all C. elegans dauer genes, but with significant differences in protein structure, developmental regulation, and gene family expansion.

  strongyloides stercoralis mongolian adapter-ligated polyadenylated novo comparative

• Defining human diabetic nephropathy on the molecular level: integration of transcriptomic profiles with biological knowledge.

  PMID 18704688 · PMC2597685 · Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genetic predisposition determines susceptibility and rate of progression to ESRD in diabetic patients, in addition to environmental factors

  kidney proximal pbmcs macrophages gene qrt-pcr immunohistochemistry

• Genome-scale modeling identifies dynamic metabolic vulnerabilities during the epithelial to mesenchymal transition.

  PMID 39730911 · PMC11681178 · Communications biology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EMT involves temporal, stage-specific metabolic reprogramming with distinct dependencies in glycolysis and glutamine metabolism.

  a549 recon1 cancer lung bulk single-cell genome-scale