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ArticleCells2025

Microglia-Derived Brain Macrophages Associate with Glioblastoma Stem Cells: A Potential Mechanism for Tumor Progression Revealed by AI-Assisted Analysis.

Yuqi Zheng, Haneya Fuse, Islam Alzoubi, Manuel B Graeber

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Article in Cells, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. CD163 Dominance Within Macrophages/Microglia Reflects a Favorable Prognosis in Patients With Glioblastoma.Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology · 2026
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  4. Targeting the COX-2/PGECancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yuqi ZhengKen Parker Brain Tumour Research Laboratories, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3859-3609
Haneya FuseSchool of Medicine, Sydney Campus, University of Notre Dame, 160 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
Islam AlzoubiSchool of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, J12/1 Cleveland St, Darlington, Sydney, NSW 2008, Australia.
Manuel B GraeberKen Parker Brain Tumour Research Laboratories, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia.

Funding

Australian Research Council DP150104472 (MBG)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BrainBrain NeoplasmsDisease ProgressionGlioblastomaMacrophagesMicrogliaNeoplastic Stem CellsAnimalsAntigens, CDB7 AntigensCD163 AntigenHumansReceptors, Cell SurfaceAntigens, CDB7 AntigensCD163 AntigenReceptors, Cell Surfacebrain macrophagesCD163glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs)Iba1 (AIF1)microgliatumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40136662
PMCPMC11940947

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