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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Unique phenotypic and T cell receptor characteristics of CD8(+) T cells accumulated in the brains of Alzheimer's disease mice.

  PMID 41794902 · PMC13087195 · Scientific reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Brain CD8+ T cells segregate into two major, mutually exclusive Trm populations: a CXCR6-related immunosuppressive cluster (cd8_c0) present in both aged non-Tg and 5xFAD_WT mice, and an AD-associated stem-like cluster (cd8_c1) present only in 5xFAD mice.

  brain-derived brain cd8+ clonally scrna-seq paired cellchat

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Hypoxia-driven remodeling of SELENOP(+) macrophages shapes T cell dynamics and promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.

  PMID 41526347 · PMC12852879 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SELENOP+ macrophages co-occur and spatially co-localize with precursor exhausted (GZMH+) CD8+ T cells and activate these T cells via selenoprotein P in vitro and in vivo.

  hgsoc million pseudo-bulk hgsoc-derived scrna-seq sctcr-seq spatial

• 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

• Partially shared multi-modal embedding learns holistic representation of cell state.

  PMID 41741805 · PMC13021527 · Nature computational science · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  APOLLO automatically learns partial information sharing between multiple data modalities using an autoencoder with a partially overlapping latent space trained via latent optimization.

  simulated paired single simulation scrna-seq multiplexed

• Utilizing the codon adaptation index to evaluate the susceptibility to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in possible target cells in humans.

  PMID 36760235 · PMC9905242 · Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CAI is positively correlated with translational efficiency, validating its use as a proxy for translational efficiency at the elongation level.

  unstimulated cd4+ kidney liver bulk single-cell

• CEBPB-Regulated Gastric Cell Plasticity Promotes Liver Metastasis of Gastric Cancer.

  PMID 41836678 · PMC12981248 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GC cells undergoing liver metastasis transcriptionally reprogram into a high-plasticity cell state

  tumor lines nci-n87 balb single-cell epigenomics transwell

• Reconstructing single-cell resolution from spatial transcriptomics with CellRefiner.

  PMID 41760664 · PMC13066420 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CellRefiner is a physical/particle-based model (subcellular element method) that integrates scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data to reconstruct single-cell resolution spatial data

  hypothalamic embryo hippocampus visual merfish seqfish slide-seqv2

• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• A pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human bone metastases.

  PMID 41619722 · PMC12923970 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Constructed a pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of 62 human bone metastases (predominantly spinal) across 13 primary cancer types, with paired primary tumor and normal bone marrow samples.

  bone paired plasmacytoma malignant scrna-seq ihc infercnv

• Quemliclustat and chemotherapy with or without zimberelimab in metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a randomized phase 1 trial.

  PMID 41912809 · PMC13099643 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Quemliclustat combined with gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel (G/nP) with or without zimberelimab has a safety profile consistent with G/nP alone across dose-escalation and dose-expansion phases

  mia hct-116 patients randomized rna-seq rt-pcr phase

• Bulk and single-cell characterisation of the immune heterogeneity of atherosclerosis identifies novel targets for immunotherapy.

  PMID 36855107 · PMC9974063 · BMC biology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Integration of scRNA-seq datasets from human atherosclerosis samples identifies 28 distinct immune cell subpopulations with heterogeneity in tissue preference, genetics, function, immune dynamics, transcriptional regulators, metabolism, and cell communication.

  immune atherosclerotic cd4+ cd8+ scrna-seq gsea pseudotime

• Humoral IgG1 responses to tumor antigens underpin clinical outcomes in immune checkpoint blockade.

  PMID 41593194 · PMC13004670 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  PD-1 blockade induces tumor-specific IgG1+ plasma cell responses that complement cellular immunity and contribute to clinical benefit

  tumor paired single-cell bulk multiplex