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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Atlas-guided discovery of transcription factors for T cell programming.

  PMID 41639465 · PMC13017511 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A multi-omics atlas (Taiji pipeline) integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq across nine CD8+ T cell states can predict TF activity and identify state-selective versus multi-state TFs

  cd8+ lcmv p14 c57bl rna-seq pearson crispr

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The Ly6g(high) Neutrophil Subset Dictates Breast Cancer Lung Metastasis via CD8(+) T Cell Death.

  PMID 41625479 · PMC12857760 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neutrophils in the lung metastatic niche comprise two functionally distinct subsets, Ly6g^high and Ly6g^low, based on Ly6g expression level

  lung cramp cd8+ neutrophils single-cell flow genetic

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Analysis of Tumor-Infiltrating T-Cell Transcriptomes Reveal a Unique Genetic Signature across Different Types of Cancer.

  PMID 36232369 · PMC9569723 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Common genes shared across five cancer types differ from those found in nonmalignant tissue-resident T-cells for each subset (CD4-T, CD8-T, Treg)

  breast lung colorectal melanoma single-cell gene reactome

• Longitudinal Profiling of Tumor and Immune Compartments Uncovers Patterns of Dysregulation and Associations with Response in Multiple Myeloma.

  PMID 41364805 · PMC13012255 · Blood cancer discovery · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  IFN-γ signaling after autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) is associated with markers of impaired CD8+ T-cell memory phenotype

  cd138neg cd138pos bone cd8+ single-cell bulk 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

• 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

• 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

• Single-cell RNA-sequencing highlights a curtailed NK cell function in convalescent COVID-19 pregnant women.

  PMID 40661959 · PMC12257036 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  NK cells show a sustained reduction during active SARS-CoV-2 infection and persisting after recovery in pregnant women

  pbmcs serum 14-color single-cell 13-plex

• Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations can be identified from CRC tumor tissue by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data

  tumor-infiltrating peripheral cd4+ tumor single-cell unsupervised pearson

• 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