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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• PD-1 and TIGIT coexpression identifies a circulating CD8 T cell subset predictive of response to anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 33188038 · PMC7668369 · Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2020 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  The frequency of circulating PD-1+TIGIT+ (DPOS) CD8+ T cells after 1 month of anti-PD-1 therapy is associated with clinical response and overall survival

  pbmcs sorted expanded cancer multiparameter receptor targeted

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Regulatory-like FOXP3+Helios+CD4+ T conventional cells correlate with T-cell activation after Orca-T immunotherapy.

  PMID 41758930 · PMC13197979 · Blood · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Orca-T immunotherapy leads to increased phenotypic T-cell activation compared with unmanipulated PBSC grafts, persisting for months after treatment.

  peripheral sorted fresh cryopreserved flow single-cell tcr

• 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