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).

• p53 tumor suppressor gene mutations in fibroblast-like synoviocytes from erosion synovium and non-erosion synovium in rheumatoid arthritis.

  PMID 15642132 · PMC1064878 · Arthritis research & therapy · 2005 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  p53 mutation frequency and type do not differ significantly between erosion and non-erosion FLS

  fibroblast-like matched snap-frozen p53 elisa pcr

• Two modes of microsatellite instability in human cancer: differential connection of defective DNA mismatch repair to dinucleotide repeat instability.

  PMID 15778432 · PMC1067522 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Dinucleotide microsatellite alterations in human cancer fall into two distinct modes: Type A (length changes ≤6 bp) and Type B (changes ≥8 bp)

  msh2− mlh1− lymphomas colorectal fluorescent sequencing immunohistochemistry

• 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

• 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

• A comparative analysis of blastoid models through single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 39524369 · PMC11543915 · iScience · 2024 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  EPSC-derived blastoids are transcriptomically distinct from nPSC-derived blastoids, with nPSC-blastoids clustering closer to natural blastocysts.

  blastoid natural combined integrated scrnaseq lineage kolmogorov-smirnov

• 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

• Novel point mutation in the extracellular domain of the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) receptor in a case of severe congenital neutropenia hyporesponsive to G-CSF treatment.

  PMID 10449521 · PMC2195597 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 1999 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel C→A point mutation at nucleotide 850 of GCSFR cDNA causes a Pro→His substitution at position 206 (P206H) in the proline-rich hinge of the CRH domain of the G-CSF receptor extracellular domain in an SCN patient hyporesponsive to G-CSF.

  bone fibroblast 32d.cl8.6 32d rt-pcr genomic flow

• Characterization of heterotypic interaction effects in vitro to deconvolute global gene expression profiles in cancer.

  PMID 17868458 · PMC2375029 · Genome biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Co-culture of certain breast cancer cell lines with stromal fibroblasts induces interferon-response genes (IRGs) in a subset of cancer cells

  mda-mb231 epithelial breast early-stage cdna quantitative facs

• Intrinsic genetic characteristics determine tumor-modifying capacity of fibroblasts: matrix metalloproteinase-3 5A/5A genotype enhances breast cancer cell invasion.

  PMID 17922906 · PMC2242664 · Breast cancer research : BCR · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor-derived fibroblasts promote higher levels of breast cancer cell invasion than normal fibroblasts

  breast conditioned mda-mb-468 genomic invasion immunofluorescence pcr-rflp

• Pleiotropic effects of MORC2 derive from its epigenetic signature.

  PMID 40302207 · PMC12782172 · Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A MORC2-specific DNA methylation episignature exists that is universal across all MORC2-associated phenotypes and conserved across blood and fibroblast tissue

  blood fibroblasts fibroblast patient-derived methylation svm phenotype-specific

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  An individualized causal analysis framework can discover tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) from transcriptomic data

  hnscc pooled cd45+ cd8+ single-cell nhdp celda

• iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration.

  PMID 37023414 · PMC10236149 · Cancer immunology research · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Malignant cells cluster by patient in scRNA-seq data while immune and stromal cells cluster by cell type, making malignant cells uniquely suited to carry patient-level inflamed/cold signal

  nsclc coad brca tcga scrna-seq bulk rna-seq

• huSA: a comprehensive database for multi-dimensional resolution of bulk, single cell and spatial transcription profiles in skin diseases.

  PMID 41719583 · PMC12923168 · Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  huSA is a publicly accessible database integrating data from 17 skin diseases and 63 independent datasets, including 1434 scRNA-seq, 63 spatial transcriptomics, and 1502 bulk RNA-seq samples

  skin scrna-seq single prurigo scrna-seq bulk spatial

• A robust approach to identifying tissue-specific gene expression regulatory variants using personalized human induced pluripotent stem cells.

  PMID 19911041 · PMC2766639 · PLoS genetics · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Padlock probes combined with high-throughput sequencing enable accurate, quantitative, low-bias digital RNA allelotyping of allele-specific expression

  genomic pgp1 skin fibroblasts padlock quantitative gene

• A genome-wide association analysis identifies 16 novel susceptibility loci for carpal tunnel syndrome.

  PMID 30833571 · PMC6399342 · Nature communications · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  16 genome-wide significant susceptibility loci for CTS were identified in UK Biobank

  biobank surgically gtex height gwas bulk summary

• Integrative transcriptome sequencing identifies trans-splicing events with important roles in human embryonic stem cell pluripotency.

  PMID 24131564 · PMC3875859 · Genome research · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TSscan, a computational pipeline integrating long- and short-read transcriptome sequencing from multiple hESC lines, can detect trans-splicing while minimizing false positives from experimental artifacts and genetic rearrangements.

  hesc hescs long-read short-read rt-pcr

• Strict sun protection results in minimal skin changes in a patient with xeroderma pigmentosum and a novel c.2009delG mutation in XPD (ERCC2).

  PMID 18637129 · PMC2605190 · Experimental dermatology · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Strict, rigorous sun protection starting at age 2 resulted in minimal skin disease (only mild lip freckling, no skin cancer) in XP2GO despite an XP diagnosis

  fibroblasts xp2go post-uv host real-time

• LRP1 as a potential diagnostic and immunomodulatory target in endometriosis: evidence from multi-omics and single-cell analyses.

  PMID 42064072 · PMC13124487 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  LRP1 is the top hub gene with the highest diagnostic performance for distinguishing ectopic from eutopic endometrium in EMS

  ectopic geo training gwas microarray wgcna machine