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).

• Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase 1 and CD8 Expression Profiling Revealed an Immunological Subtype of Colon Cancer With a Poor Prognosis.

  PMID 33425745 · PMC7793995 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A colon cancer subtype with CD8Ahigh IDO1high tumors shows the worst survival despite high CD8 T cell infiltrates

  tcga-coad ncbi-geo tisidb gepia rna-seq tumor-infiltrating gene

• T cell-intrinsic VISTA expression promotes resistance to CTLA-4 blockade by restricting CD8+ T cell responses.

  PMID 41837284 · PMC12987620 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Loss of T cell-intrinsic VISTA enhances early priming and short-term expansion of CD8+ T cells but this initial advantage fails to confer durable tumor control

  tumor vsir cell-specific myeloid-specific flow adoptive peptide

• Single-Cell Profiling Across Immune Tissues and Organs Reveals Immunosenescence Signatures in Male Rhesus Monkeys.

  PMID 41556329 · PMC13042567 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  GZMB is markedly upregulated across multiple cell types in aged rhesus monkeys and serves as a candidate biomarker of immunosenescence

  bone cd8+ mesenteric sections single-cell gene pseudotime

• 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

• TOPK Suppresses the CD8(+) T Cell Antitumor Immunity via Modulation of IRF5 Expression.

  PMID 41868885 · PMC13003159 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A TOPK+ subset of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells exists in melanoma at higher frequency than in normal lymph nodes and shows suppressed cytotoxic/cytokine programs.

  tumor-infiltrating melanoma b16-f10 unspecified scrna-seq flow multiplex

• Machine learning-based identification of an immunotherapy-related signature to enhance outcomes and immunotherapy responses in melanoma.

  PMID 39355255 · PMC11442245 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  66 consensus immunotherapy prognostic genes (CITPGs) were identified from the intersection of WGCNA modules, immunotherapy responder-vs-non-responder DEGs, and tumor-vs-normal DEGs

  melanoma tcga-skcm prjeb23709 microarray wgcna differential consensus

• Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay inhibition reshapes the cancer immunopeptidome.

  PMID 41956098 · PMC7619149 · Immunity · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Reduced NMD activity (lower NMD score) predicts improved CPI response across >1,000 patients, independent of TMB or tumor type

  tcga a375 reporter patient-derived multi-omics crispr-cas9 sirna

• comBO: A combined human bone and lympho-myeloid bone marrow organoid for preclinical modeling of hematopoietic disorders.

  PMID 41734765 · PMC7618947 · Cell stem cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  comBO is a single iPSC-derived organoid differentiation that generates osteolineage, vascular, lymphoid, and myeloid compartments together

  hipsc-derived combo combo-derived healthy-donor flow single-cell confocal

• Single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals intra-tumoral heterogeneity and immunotherapy strategies in high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

  PMID 41907410 · PMC13018870 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq of 17 HGSOC tissue samples reveals seven major cell types and extensive intra-tumoral heterogeneity

  hgsoc epithelial tcga gse165897 single-cell copy kegg

• ZFP148 is a transcriptional repressor of cytolytic effector CD8(+) T cell differentiation.

  PMID 41896465 · PMC13043298 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ZFP148 is enriched in CD8+ T progenitor (T PRO) cells and its expression declines during differentiation into effector (T EFF) and exhausted (T EX) cells

  p14 splenic cd8+ b16-gp scrna-seq flow tcr

• Single-cell gene expression and TCR profiling reveal age-related differences in recent thymic emigrants.

  PMID 42023153 · PMC13098507 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Neonatal and adult CD8+ RTEs are phenotypically and functionally distinct despite equivalent post-thymic maturation time

  splenic neonatal sorted flow single-cell differential

• 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

• Tumor reactivity assessment using clonal expression reveals tumor reactive CD8(+) T cell heterogeneity across solid tumors.

  PMID 42079667 · PMC13128579 · Frontiers in immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  TRACE, a clonotype-level CD8+ TRT classifier trained on an aggregated multi-study dataset, achieves robust holdout performance (mean MCC 0.84, F1 0.85)

  cd8+ expanded aggregated combined scrna-seq co-culture gene

• 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

• Integrative network modeling reveals mechanisms underlying T cell exhaustion.

  PMID 32024856 · PMC7002445 · Scientific reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  TCE arises from changes in diverse gene regulatory interactions across a shared network rather than dysregulation of a single gene

  cd8+ tce manual gene principal

• 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

• Tumor-specific but immunosuppressive CD39(+)CD8(+) T cells exhibit double-faceted roles in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 40961944 · PMC12629791 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD39+CD8+ TILs constitute a terminally exhausted, tumor-antigen-specific subset of CD8+ T cells

  memory sorted caix-specific cd39+pd-1bright scrna-seq bulk mhc

• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival

• 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

• 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