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).

• Zebrafish functional xenograft vasculature platform identifies PF-502 as a durable vasculature normalization drug.

  PMID 37680473 · PMC10480778 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The zebrafish functional xenograft vasculature platform (zFXVP) enables visualization and quantification of structurally and functionally realistic tumor vasculature formation.

  zebrafish endothelial tumor fluorescence edu dextran-tomato

• Leveraging the germ layer development patterns to predict prognosis and identify MEST as a novel therapeutic target in glioma.

  PMID 41501725 · PMC12870398 · Cancer cell international · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  MEST is a key oncogenic GLD-related gene and a novel therapeutic target in glioma, identified via a machine learning feature selection framework

  bulk single-cell tcga glioma gsva aucell machine

• Does tumorigenesis select for or against mutations of the DNA repair-associated genes BRCA2 and MRE11?: considerations from somatic mutations in microsatellite unstable (MSI) gastrointestinal cancers.

  PMID 16417627 · PMC1382246 · BMC genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Heterozygous truncating BRCA2 mutations occur in 47% (7/15) of gastrointestinal MSI cancer cell lines/xenografts, a higher rate than previously reported

  gastrointestinal ls174t pl3 msi gene rt-pcr rad51

• Serum S100A6 concentration predicts peritoneal tumor burden in mice with epithelial ovarian cancer and is associated with advanced stage in patients.

  PMID 19888321 · PMC2765613 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Serum S100A6 concentration correlates with peritoneal tumor burden in a mouse OVCA xenograft model, based on inverse regression calibration against bioluminescent imaging data.

  serum skov-3 pooled ovca lc-ms antigen whole-animal

• Expression analysis of secreted and cell surface genes of five transformed human cell lines and derivative xenograft tumors.

  PMID 15836779 · PMC1112590 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  A custom 60-mer oligonucleotide microarray covering 3531 secreted and cell surface genes was designed to profile 5 transformed human cell lines and their derivative xenograft tumors.

  carcinoma derivative xenograft custom quantitative

• Enhancer Reprogramming Confers Dependence on Glycolysis and IGF Signaling in KMT2D Mutant Melanoma.

  PMID 33086062 · PMC7649750 · Cell reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KMT2D is a potent tumor suppressor in melanoma

  hmel-brafv600e tyr-creert2 tma kmt2d pooled xenograft genetically

• In vivo microscopy reveals macrophage polarization locally promotes coherent microtubule dynamics in migrating cancer cells.

  PMID 32665556 · PMC7360550 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer cells in vivo display higher coherent orientation of MT dynamics along their major axis compared to 2D in vitro cultures

  ht1080-eb3-mapple es2-eb3-mapple ht1080 cancer intravital live-cell confocal

• Deubiquitination enzyme USP35 negatively regulates MAVS signaling to inhibit anti-tumor immunity.

  PMID 40016186 · PMC11868397 · Cell death & disease · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  USP35 interacts with MAVS and removes its K63-linked polyubiquitin chains, inhibiting viral-induced MAVS-TBK1-IRF3 activation and downstream inflammatory gene expression

  tumor melanoma tcga-skcm hek293t bioinformatics geo kaplan-meier

• Interaction between SNAI2 and MYOD enhances oncogenesis and suppresses differentiation in Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma.

  PMID 33420019 · PMC7794422 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SNAI2 is highly expressed in FN-RMS tumors and cell lines compared to normal tissue

  rms fn-rms fp-rms imr90 rna-seq western immunohistochemistry

• Somatic mutations of the Parkinson's disease-associated gene PARK2 in glioblastoma and other human malignancies.

  PMID 19946270 · PMC4002225 · Nature genetics · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PARK2 is a frequently and specifically targeted gene within recurrent 6q25.2-q27 copy number losses in glioblastoma and colon cancer

  colon gbm cancer dbtrg array pcr colony

• Immunoregulatory Roles of Tumor-Originated Pericytes Identified by Single-Cell Analysis in Glioblastoma.

  PMID 41001759 · PMC12713092 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD146 (MCAM) is a superior surface marker for sorting GBM pericytes, labeling nearly all PDGFRβ+ pericytes with strong specificity, unlike NG2 which labels fewer vessel-associated pericytes.

  facs-sorted frozen dissociated scrna-seq scrna-seq immunofluorescence fluorescence-activated

• CHD5, a tumor suppressor gene deleted from 1p36.31 in neuroblastomas.

  PMID 18577749 · PMC2483574 · Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CHD5 promoter is highly methylated in neuroblastoma cell lines with 1p deletion and absent CHD5 expression (NLF, IMR5)

  neuroblastoma nlf athymic methylation-specific quantitative soft

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

  solid fetal cd133+ breast facs neurosphere genome-wide

• Single-cell resolution of an open chromatin signature in persister tumor cells.

  PMID 41485222 · PMC12978573 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-nucleus multi-omic (snRNA-seq + snATAC-seq) profiling of fallopian tube, treatment-naive, and NACT-treated HGSOC tissue identifies a persister cell signature (PCS) defining the chemotherapy-tolerant state.

  non-malignant same epithelial tumor single-nucleus mitochondrial copy-number

• mtDNA depletion confers specific gene expression profiles in human cells grown in culture and in xenograft.

  PMID 18980691 · PMC2612029 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  mtDNA depletion confers specific, shared gene expression profiles in A549 cells grown in culture and as xenografts

  a549 growth oxygen mtdna

• Tyrosine phosphorylation inhibits PKM2 to promote the Warburg effect and tumor growth.

  PMID 19920251 · PMC2812789 · Science signaling · 2009 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Oncogenic FGFR1 directly phosphorylates PKM2 at tyrosine 105 (Y105), inhibiting its enzymatic activity

  293t kg-1a recombinant h1299 ms-based co-transfection enzymatic

• Solute exchange through gap junctions lessens the adverse effects of inactivating mutations in metabolite-handling genes.

  PMID 36107487 · PMC9534548 · eLife · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Colorectal cancer (CRC) cells are coupled by gap junctions assembled predominantly from Cx26 (GJB2)

  colorectal normal crc microarray tcga single-cell

• Single-cell protein activity analysis reveals aberrant myogenesis and IGF2-PI3K pathway dependencies in MYOD1-mutant rhabdomyosarcoma.

  PMID 41758938 · PMC12947870 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MYOD1 L122R-mutant SRMS tumors contain three coexisting, conserved cell states (progenitor, transition, differentiated) reflecting aberrant myogenic differentiation

  patient-derived tumor single paired single-nucleus infercnv aracne-ap

• Targeting the epigenome and the integrated stress response to normalize colorectal cancer subclonal plasticity and progression.

  PMID 41963303 · PMC13181133 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The integrated stress response (ISR) induces CRC cell plasticity, subclonal diversity, and tumor progression in stress-surviving cells

  ht29-derived ht29 nod rna-seq faire-qpcr chip-seq

• 5-HT reuptake blockade induces pyroptosis in BRAF(V600E)-mutated melanomas via remodeling histone serotonylation.

  PMID 41494533 · PMC12866116 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-throughput screening of 90 FDA-approved antidepressants identifies PH as an alternative therapeutic for BRAF V600E-mutated melanoma

  braf a375 gfp-tph1-overexpressing yumm1.7 high-throughput ic50 xenograft