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).

• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  IL-21-producing Tfh CD4 T cells repopulate after CD4 depletion but remain at reduced frequency compared with control mice

  cd44+ splenocytes spleen tcr scrna-seq flow spatial

• The AICL-KLRF1 axis supports CD4-CD8 T cell communication and cytokine competence in pre-exhausted CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 41851343 · PMC13121605 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Progressive expression of KLRB1, KLRG1, GPR56, and KLRF1 tracks CD8+ T cell differentiation stages (TN, TCM, TEM, TEMRA), mirroring the pattern previously shown in CD4+ T cells

  unstimulated cd3+-enriched enriched cd8+ flow sorting-based spatial

• Predictive modeling of molecular activity underlying physical cell-cell interactions.

  PMID 41672069 · PMC12946745 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Gloss, an overlapping group lasso regression combining single-gene and curated pathway features, predicts LIPSTIC interaction intensity from scRNA-seq data

  tumor intestine mediastinal organs lipsticv1 ulipstic cite-seq

• Vaccine-induced ICOS(+)CD38(+) circulating Tfh are sensitive biosensors of age-related changes in inflammatory pathways.

  PMID 34095875 · PMC8149371 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Vaccine-induced ICOS+CD38+ cTfh from elderly adults show increased TNF-NF-κB pathway transcriptional signaling compared to young adults at day 7 post-vaccination

  pbmc sorted rna-seq icos+cd38+ flow bulk gene

• Generation of thymus-reconstituting T cell progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells.

  PMID 41512861 · PMC12853186 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A cytokine-free hPSC hematopoietic differentiation protocol followed by OP9-DLL4 stromal co-culture generates pro-T cells without genetic manipulation

  hpsc hescs hpsc-hec-derived sorted flow tcr single-cell

• Disruption of metabolic licensing by JAK inhibitors constrains CD8 T cell activation and effector function.

  PMID 41876467 · PMC13039990 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  JAKis targeting JAK1, JAK1/2, or JAK1/3 markedly reduce CD8 T cell activation markers, proliferation, and effector molecule (TNF, granzyme B) production

  naive memory activated sorted flow scenith cd8

• Single-Cell Multi-Tissue T Cell Clonal Dynamics Reveal Distinct Immune Coercion Landscapes in MSI and MSS Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41898550 · PMC13027115 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Immunotherapy response in CRC is better explained by TCR clonal dynamics (expansion, migration, functional transitions) than by MSI status alone

  crc single high-quality cd4+ scrna-seq tcr pseudotime

• Liver-specific paraoxonase-1 alleviates regulatory T cell-driven immunosuppression via metabolic reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41387425 · PMC12701056 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PON1 expression is downregulated in HCC tumor tissue and low PON1 is associated with worse prognosis

  hcc paired hepa1-6 pon1-nc bioinformatic immunohistochemistry orthotopic

• Single-immunocyte transcriptomics reveal the role of natural killer cell-dependent exogenous antigen presentation in ankylosing spondylitis severity.

  PMID 41593306 · PMC12868835 · Experimental & molecular medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Innate antibacterial defense functions are generally enhanced in most cell types at AS onset and are negatively associated with AS severity

  pbmcs gwas pbmc-derived cd4+ single-cell bulk mendelian

• Loss of CD4(+) T cell-intrinsic arginase 1 accelerates Th1 response kinetics and reduces lung pathology during influenza infection.

  PMID 37572656 · PMC10576612 · Immunity · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Arg1 is highly and specifically induced in lung CD4+ T cells during in vivo influenza infection

  flow-sort-purified lung cd4+ congenically rna-seq flow expression

• De novo identification of CD4(+) T cell epitopes.

  PMID 38658646 · PMC11093748 · Nature methods · 2024 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  SABR-IIs (chimeric receptors linking a covalently attached peptide-MHC-II to CD28-CD3ζ signaling domains) present epitopes to CD4+ T cells and induce a readable NFAT-GFP/CD69 signal upon cognate TCR recognition

  nfat-gfp hla-dq8 5kc daudi nfat-gfp co-incubation species

• 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

• Spatially clustered loci with multiple enhancers are frequent targets of HIV-1 integration.

  PMID 31492853 · PMC6731298 · Nature communications · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Recurrently targeted HIV-1 integration genes (RIGs) are proximal to super-enhancer (SE) genomic elements

  activated cd4+ cd3 jurkat chip-seq hiv-1 sequencing

• Evaluating Distribution and Prognostic Value of New Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HCC Based on a scRNA-Seq Study With CIBERSORTx.

  PMID 33043022 · PMC7527443 · Frontiers in medicine · 2020 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  CIBERSORTx can combine scRNA-seq-derived signature matrices with bulk RNA-seq data to estimate proportions of 11 TIL subsets in HCC tumor and normal tissue

  tcga degs cd4-gzma prognostic scrna-seq cibersortx differential

• JunB Is Critical for Survival of T Helper Cells.

  PMID 35837408 · PMC9273772 · Frontiers in immunology · 2022 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  JunB is required for clonal expansion of Th1, Th2, and Th17 cells

  ot-ii junb naive th1 flow adoptive th1

• Metabolic adaptations rewire CD4(+) T cells in a subset-specific manner in human critical illness with and without sepsis.

  PMID 41540263 · PMC12864044 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CD4+ T cells in critical illness show subset-specific metabolic plasticity, with regulatory T (Treg) cells preferentially acquiring glycolytic capacity

  pbmc-derived peripheral cd4+ puromycin-incorporation complete expression

• Loss of SOCS1 in Donor T Cells Exacerbates Intestinal GVHD by Driving a Chemokine-Dependent Pro-Inflammatory Immune Microenvironment.

  PMID 41580972 · PMC13042394 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T cell-specific Socs1 loss intrinsically drives pro-inflammatory T cell differentiation independent of antigen stimulation, with the strongest effects in CD8+ T cells

  cd45+ splenic cd8+ sorted single-cell flow bulk

• CD38 expression by neonatal human naive CD4+ T cells shapes their distinct metabolic and tolerogenic properties.

  PMID 41746743 · PMC13078883 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD38 is markedly more highly expressed on cord blood (CB) naive CD4+ T cells than adult blood (AB) naive CD4+ T cells, with an age-dependent gradient from fetal to pediatric life.

  pbmcs sorted scrna-seq naive flow bulk compass

• Transcriptome and proteome expressions involved in insulin resistance in muscle and activated T-lymphocytes of patients with type 2 diabetes.

  PMID 18267303 · PMC5054231 · Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Gene expression of INSR, VDR, IDE, Akt, IRS-1, IRS-2, GLUT4, and glycolytic pathway enzymes is decreased at least 50% in T2DM muscle and activated T-cells versus non-diabetic controls

  activated skeletal muscle altered affymetrix quantitative sirna

• Emergence of recombinant forms of HIV: dynamics and scaling.

  PMID 17967052 · PMC2041978 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A detailed mathematical model incorporating multiple cell infections and recombination quantitatively captures experimental observations of recombinant HIV emergence dynamics in vitro

  cd4+ scid-hu splenocytes computational single-round replication-competent proviral