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).

• Ectopic CD11c Drives SMAD3-Mediated Aberrant Antigen Presentation and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

  PMID 41799568 · PMC12963642 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 13 setups

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  An ESCC epithelial cell subcluster with ectopic CD11c (ITGAX) expression, found in both mice and humans, exhibits concurrent impaired antigen presentation and EMT phenotypes

  4-nqo-induced escc esophageal lung multiplex flow whole-genome

• Transient tumor exposure induces persistent functional defects in memory CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 42023146 · PMC13098610 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Memory CD8+ T cells generated after transient tumor rejection (Tum-CD8+) display a distinct, partially exhausted phenotype compared to virus-induced memory cells (Vir-CD8+)

  cd45.1 single-cell memory ctv flow single-cell cytokine

• PRECISE-seq reveals disease-relevant TCR repertoires with phenotypic plasticity.

  PMID 42118153 · PMC13165028 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PRECISE-seq is a contact-dependent proximity labeling sequencing platform using Sortase A (SrtA)-catalyzed ligation to simultaneously profile antigen specificity, TCR potency, and phenotypic landscape at single-cell resolution

  hek293t k562-hla-a2 ot-i cd45.1+ flow

• 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

• PD-1 blockade potentiates neoadjuvant chemotherapy in NSCLC via increasing CD127(+) and KLRG1(+) CD8 T cells.

  PMID 37231145 · PMC10213055 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  NAPC produces higher major pathological response (MPR) and pathological complete response (pCR) rates and longer DFS/OS than NAC alone

  cd45+ ffpe scrna-seq cd8+ single-cell multiplex gene

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• 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

• Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics Characterizes Immune Microenvironment During Mouse Liver Aging.

  PMID 42010880 · PMC13096584 · Aging cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T cells are the immune cell population with the most pronounced transcriptomic alterations during liver aging

  liver nash cirrhotic hcc scrna-seq snrna-seq stereo-seq

• 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

• 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

• Opioid-induced transcriptional reprogramming of cerebrospinal fluid immune cells is associated with neuroinflammatory signaling in antiretroviral treated SIV-infected rhesus macaques.

  PMID 42010620 · PMC13227897 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Morphine-dependent macaques show increased CD4+ TCM and Treg cell proportions and decreased CD8+ TEM cell proportions in CSF at the pre-infection timepoint compared to saline controls

  csf scrna-seq necropsy single-cell flow cell-cell

• Divergent macrophage-regulated T cell states determine response to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine in high-risk bladder cancer.

  PMID 42081487 · PMC13262731 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BCG responders show an increase in Th17-like Th1 CD4+ T cells with greater proinflammatory cytokine expression

  bladder pbmcs cd4+ separate scrna-seq trajectory flow

• Comprehensive immune profiling reveals IFN-γ signaling in T cells mediates parasite phagocytosis in a rodent malaria model.

  PMID 41810957 · PMC13059739 · mBio · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  IFN-γ signaling in T cells contributes to the development of malaria-associated lung pathology

  lungs pbnk65-infected cell-specific lung flow time-series qrt-pcr

• Host-derived interleukin-1α drives tumor immunosuppression by reprogramming tumor-associated myeloid cells.

  PMID 41547846 · PMC12910057 · NPJ breast cancer · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Deletion of host Il1α causes rejection/regression of transplanted breast tumors

  h605 pymt tumor-infiltrating two-week orthotopic flow single-cell

• Pharmacological perturbation of splicing elicits SMG1 reduction: Implications for cancer therapy.

  PMID 41623476 · PMC12857400 · iScience · 2026 · 7 claims · 12 setups

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  Splicing-modulatory drugs MS023 and indisulam act as inadvertent NMD inhibitors by downregulating SMG1 protein levels

  4t1 tumor-draining arst panc02 mts tumor ifn-γ

• VISTA drives pancreatic tumor progression through modulation of the tumor-associated macrophage polarity.

  PMID 41776161 · PMC13194722 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  VISTA deficiency significantly impairs PDAC tumor growth and prolongs survival in murine orthotopic models

  pan02 cd45+ tumor mice orthotopic pharmacological flow

• Spatial transcriptomics unveils immune cellular ecosystems associated with patient survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

  PMID 42010788 · PMC13102037 · Oncoimmunology · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  DLBCL tissues are organized into six recurrent, spatially defined cellular ecosystems (Cell-Eco) with distinct immune compositions, transcriptional programs, and neighborhood architectures.

  dlbcl cd45+ spots scrna-seq spatial scrna-seq cell-type

• PBRM1 Deficiency Reshapes an Immune Suppressive Microenvironment Through Epigenetic Tuning of PBRM1-KDM5C-IL6 Axis in ccRCC.

  PMID 41514194 · PMC13042695 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PBRM1 deficiency increases infiltration of immunosuppressive M2 tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and creates an immune-excluded tumor microenvironment

  vhl kidney pbrm1 immunodeficient scrna-seq multiplex crispr-cas9

• Dietary conjugated linoleic acid enhances resistance to Salmonella infection by promoting PPARγ-mediated metabolic reprogramming and effector function in CD8⁺ T cells.

  PMID 41964110 · PMC13078244 · Gut microbes · 2026 · 8 claims · 12 setups

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  Dietary CLA supplementation enhances host resistance to Salmonella Typhimurium infection

  ileal mice serum culture 16s untargeted bulk

• Dynamics of lung-infiltrating virus-specific T cells associated with age-dependent SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia severity.

  PMID 41533733 · PMC12829949 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aged Nr4a3-Tocky mice develop more severe pneumonia and delayed body weight recovery after SARS-CoV-2 infection than adult mice

  nr4a3-tocky bronchoalveolar lung left viral histopathology immunohistochemistry