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).

• Metabolic quiescence of naive-like memory T cells precedes and maintains antigen-specific T cell memory.

  PMID 41735532 · PMC12956582 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD8+ T cells upregulate glycolysis to fuel anabolic needs for proliferation but predominantly use oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) for energy production during the acute phase (days 7-28) after YFV vaccination

  peripheral cd8+ ns4b+ antigen-specific flow scrna-seq cite-seq

• Intergenic risk variant rs56258221 skews the fate of naive CD4(+) T cells via miR4464-BACH2 interplay in primary sclerosing cholangitis.

  PMID 38901430 · PMC11293351 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  rs56258221 (BACH2/MIR4464) associates with a distinct peripheral blood T cell immunophenotype in people with PSC

  peripheral liver facs-sorted cd4+ flow bulk cite-seq

• Novel approaches for identifying target antigens of autoreactive human B and T cells.

  PMID 19763575 · PMC2845891 · Seminars in immunopathology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD8+ T cells infiltrating MS brain and IM muscle tissue show clonal expansions consistent with antigen-driven selection

  muscle brain morphologically autopsy cdr3-spectratyping single-cell immunohistochemistry

• Multiomics combined drugs to explore the potential mechanism and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis.

  PMID 41673882 · PMC13047816 · Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Effector CD8+ memory T (Tem) cells are significantly elevated in AS patients compared to healthy controls

  bone peripheral effector interspinous single-cell cibersortx cell-cell

• Limited protection against early-life lung murine cytomegalovirus infection results from deficiency of cytotoxic CD8 T cells.

  PMID 42008567 · PMC13128127 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 9 claims · 9 setups

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  Expansion of endogenous MCMV-specific CD8 T cells is delayed in early life due to a low precursor frequency of peripheral αβ T cells

  peripheral spleen polyclonal neonatal pmhc-i mhc-ii flow

• Antigen specificity of clonally enriched CD8(+) T cells in multiple sclerosis.

  PMID 41644766 · PMC12956596 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A subset of 23 highly expanded, CSF-enriched CD8+ T cell clonotypes exists predominantly in the CSF of the MS/CIS cohort.

  paired cd8+ cd4+ csf single-cell differential pseudotime

• α4 Integrin blockade impairs CD8+ T cell neuroimmune surveillance following SIV infection.

  PMID 41734020 · PMC13078879 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  α4 blockade preserves CD4+ Th1 cell access to brain parenchyma but impairs CD8 effector recruitment, disrupting antiviral control

  siv-infected live macaque cd4-δitga4 flow antibody single-cell

• Regulatory-like FOXP3+Helios+CD4+ T conventional cells correlate with T-cell activation after Orca-T immunotherapy.

  PMID 41758930 · PMC13197979 · Blood · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Orca-T immunotherapy leads to increased phenotypic T-cell activation compared with unmanipulated PBSC grafts, persisting for months after treatment.

  peripheral sorted fresh cryopreserved flow single-cell tcr

• Circulating mucosal-associated invariant T cells identify patients responding to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33723257 · PMC7961017 · Nature communications · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Proportions of activated and proliferating CD8+ T cells (cluster C16/activated EM) are significantly higher in responders before and during therapy

  pbmc cd3+cd8+ pbmc-derived metastatic high-dimensional single-cell polychromatic

• Metabolic Adaptation of CD8⁺ T Cells Limits the Efficacy of Fatty Acid Oxidation Inhibition in Type 1 Diabetes.

  PMID 41800251 · PMC12965062 · International journal of biological sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TMZ enhances mitochondrial membrane potential and suppresses fatty acid oxidation (FAO) in human T cells

  peripheral endoc-βh5 nod pancreatic mitochondrial extracellular glucose-stimulated

• Blood-based epigenetic instability linked to human aging and disease.

  PMID 41690920 · PMC13018287 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  31,744 unmethylated (and 6143 methylated) CpG loci in blood show highly consistent, stable methylation in young healthy individuals and are defined as Epigenetically Stable Loci (ESLs)

  blood normal paired aml illumina whole-genome methylation

• Expansion and mobilization of virus-specific stem-like CD8 T cells in chronic viral infection after treatment with a long-acting IL-7, NT-I7.

  PMID 41920738 · PMC13222646 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NT-I7 preferentially expands PD-1+TCF1+Tim-3- stem-like virus-specific CD8 T cells rather than effector/TD subsets during chronic LCMV infection

  chronic chronically lcmv-specific spleen flow ki67 intracellular

• Single-cell immunophenotyping identifies CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cells as a key immune population in cutaneous Lyme disease.

  PMID 41729083 · PMC12956012 · JCI insight · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A clonally expanded CD8+GZMK+IFNG+ T cell population (subdivided into IFNGhi and IFNGint groups) is enriched in the EM lesion and shows an inflammatory, tissue-resident phenotype (GZMBlo/PRF1-) resembling tissue-enriched GZMK+ TteK cells

  whole-skin cd8+gzmk+ifnghi identified skin scrna-seq pseudobulk immune

• Immune profiling in a living human recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney.

  PMID 41507576 · PMC12823403 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Xenograft experienced early T cell-mediated rejection (Banff grade 2A) within 1 week post-transplant despite profound circulating T cell depletion, likely driven by subtherapeutic immunosuppression and residual CD8+ T cells in lymph nodes.

  xenotransplant recipient kidney integrative single-cell flow

• Clonal CD8(+) T cells populate the leptomeninges and coordinate with immune cells in human degenerative brain diseases.

  PMID 41593242 · PMC12864034 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The human leptomeninges harbor substantial numbers of clonally expanded, tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells (ZNF683-high, CXCR6+, PD-1+)

  postmortem leptomeninges scrna-seq-derived leptomeningeal single-cell flow imaging

• Context-specific regulatory genetic variation in MTOR dampens neutrophil-T cell crosstalk in pneumonia-associated sepsis.

  PMID 41741465 · PMC13057173 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The MTOR eQTL variant rs4845987 has context-specific, opposite effects on MTOR expression: decreasing it in activated T cells and increasing it in neutrophils.

  blood bulk eqtl sepsis bulk cell-type colocalisation

• PD-1 antibody-bound progenitor-exhausted CD8(+) T cells in lymph nodes boost PD-1-blockade anti-tumor immunity in gastrointestinal cancer.

  PMID 41951588 · PMC13237225 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Progenitor-exhausted CD8+ T cells (CD8-Tpex, TCF7+PDCD1+) are enriched in proximal lymph nodes and proliferate at a high rate after ICI treatment

  esophagogastric cancer surgically tcga scrna-seq scrna reanalysis

• Systematic clustering algorithm for chromatin accessibility data and its application to hematopoietic cells.

  PMID 33253153 · PMC7728210 · PLoS computational biology · 2020 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  A systematic clustering algorithm for ATAC-seq data can be built by binarizing the genome into open/closed chromatin (1/0) strings and computing Hamming distances between samples for hierarchical clustering.

  monocytes natural hematopoietic leukemia atac-seq hierarchical

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

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An individualized Bayesian causal discovery framework can learn tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) by combining single-cell gene expression module (GEM) discovery, bulk tumor deconvolution, and individualized causal network learning.

  hnscc cd45+ cd8+ tcga single-cell bulk pseudo-time

• Tumour-intrinsic features shape T cell differentiation through precursor to symptomatic multiple myeloma.

  PMID 41644568 · PMC12982522 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MM is not characterized by T cell exhaustion but by antigen-driven terminal memory differentiation, unlike solid cancers

  bone cd69+ cd8+ smm single-cell cite-seq gene