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).

• 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

• 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 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

• Peripheral Immune and Metabolic Dysregulation in Migraine, Ménière's Disease, and Vestibular Migraine: A Single-Cell Atlas Study.

  PMID 41953397 · PMC13054517 · Human mutation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T cell abundance is significantly increased in MI compared to HC, while monocyte abundance is reduced, identifying T cells as a key pathogenic cell type

  pbmcs pbmc-derived degs pbmc single-cell differential kegg

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Single-Cell Multi-Tissue T Cell Clonal Dynamics Reveal Distinct Immune Coercion Landscapes in MSI and MSS Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41898550 · PMC13027115 · International journal of molecular sciences · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Immunotherapy response in CRC is better explained by TCR clonal dynamics (expansion, migration, functional transitions) than by MSI status alone

  crc single high-quality cd4+ scrna-seq tcr pseudotime

• Loss of CD4(+) T cell-intrinsic arginase 1 accelerates Th1 response kinetics and reduces lung pathology during influenza infection.

  PMID 37572656 · PMC10576612 · Immunity · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Arg1 is highly and specifically induced in lung CD4+ T cells during in vivo influenza infection

  flow-sort-purified lung cd4+ congenically rna-seq flow expression

• Disruption of metabolic licensing by JAK inhibitors constrains CD8 T cell activation and effector function.

  PMID 41876467 · PMC13039990 · Cell death & disease · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  JAKis targeting JAK1, JAK1/2, or JAK1/3 markedly reduce CD8 T cell activation markers, proliferation, and effector molecule (TNF, granzyme B) production

  naive memory activated sorted flow scenith cd8

• 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

• Generation of thymus-reconstituting T cell progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells.

  PMID 41512861 · PMC12853186 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A cytokine-free hPSC hematopoietic differentiation protocol followed by OP9-DLL4 stromal co-culture generates pro-T cells without genetic manipulation

  hpsc hescs hpsc-hec-derived sorted flow tcr single-cell

• CLK1 Promotes Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Trafficking and Reprograms the Tumor Microenvironment by Activating Hippo/YAP Signaling in Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 41686262 · PMC13136879 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CLK1 is markedly upregulated in immune-cold colorectal tumors and correlates with increased MDSC infiltration and CD8+ T-cell exclusion

  colorectal tcga-coad ct26 tumor scrna-seq bulk multiplex

• Predictive modeling of molecular activity underlying physical cell-cell interactions.

  PMID 41672069 · PMC12946745 · Cell reports methods · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Gloss, an overlapping group lasso regression combining single-gene and curated pathway features, predicts LIPSTIC interaction intensity from scRNA-seq data

  tumor intestine mediastinal organs lipsticv1 ulipstic cite-seq

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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