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).

• Spatial transcriptomics demonstrates the role of CD4 T cells in effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection.

  PMID 36450262 · PMC9792173 · Cell reports · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  IL-21-producing Tfh CD4 T cells repopulate after CD4 depletion but remain at reduced frequency compared with control mice

  cd44+ splenocytes spleen tcr scrna-seq flow spatial

• Spatial-reprogramming derived GPNMB(+) macrophages interact with COL6A3(+) fibroblasts to enhance vascular fibrosis in glioblastoma.

  PMID 41174767 · PMC12577258 · Genome medicine · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  COL6A3+ TAFs are a distinct matrix-fibroblast subset significantly enriched in non-responders to neoadjuvant antiangiogenic+ICB combination therapy

  gbm ffpe col6a3+ thp-1 scrna-seq spatial multiplex

• Vγ1 γδ T cells steer airway macrophages toward a profibrotic response in an autochthonous lung cancer mouse model.

  PMID 41779856 · PMC12959402 · Science advances · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Lung tumors drive expansion of both CD27+ and CD27- pulmonary γδ T cells, which acquire distinct spatial and phenotypic changes in the tumor microenvironment

  spc-cre+ microdissected sorted merged flow confocal single-cell

• The Presence of CD11c+ B Cells with Potent Effector Memory Phenotype in Lung Adenocarcinoma Correlates with Overall Patient Survival.

  PMID 41686183 · PMC12988592 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CD79A is a reliable transcriptomic/protein quantifier of B lymphocytes across differentiation stages, unlike CD19/CD20 whose expression changes upon activation

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• α4 Integrin blockade impairs CD8+ T cell neuroimmune surveillance following SIV infection.

  PMID 41734020 · PMC13078879 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  α4 blockade preserves CD4+ Th1 cell access to brain parenchyma but impairs CD8 effector recruitment, disrupting antiviral control

  siv-infected live macaque cd4-δitga4 flow antibody single-cell

• Single-cell and spatial profiling highlights TB-induced myofibroblasts as drivers of lung pathology.

  PMID 41489684 · PMC12767585 · The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MMP1+CXCL5+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages are linked to TB disease and TB lung granuloma and reveal targetable cellular cross talk underlying TB immunopathology

  lung ffpe lymph nonhuman scrna-seq spatial bulk

• Ex Vivo Immuno-Oncology Platform Reveals Spatial T-cell Infiltration Patterns Linked to ATR Inhibition Responses in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer.

  PMID 41563843 · PMC7618831 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  iPDCs cultured on human omentum gel (OmGel) recapitulate tumor genomic and histologic characteristics while retaining intratumoral immune cells

  formalin-fixed blood dissociated ipdcs histopathology whole-exome flow

• A macrophage-induced subpopulation of mesenchymal cells expressing Fcer1g contributes to wound-induced fibrosis.

  PMID 41680182 · PMC13009336 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Early-phase macrophage depletion (MaFIA + AP20187) reduces fibrosis/scar area and mesenchymal cell numbers without delaying reepithelialization or angiogenesis.

  mafia nih pdgfra-rtta flow excisional immunofluorescence

• Bidirectional CRISPR screens decode a GLIS3-dependent fibrotic cell circuit.

  PMID 41501466 · PMC12820784 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Inflammation-associated fibroblasts (IAFs), induced by proinflammatory FCN1+IL1B+ macrophages, produce profibrotic IL-11 and drive fibrosis in IBD

  intestinal colon pdgfra+ colonic scrna-seq xenium masson's

• Intestinal macrophages modulate synucleinopathy along the gut-brain axis.

  PMID 41606336 · PMC12960212 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  ME-Macs engulf misfolded, aggregated αS and modulate αS pathology and neurodegeneration in PD mouse models

  3kl sorted me-macs snca immunohistochemistry digital mass

• Tenascin C(+) myofibroblasts exacerbate vascular neointimal hyperplasia by propagation of nerve-macrophage interactions in mice.

  PMID 41617709 · PMC12960667 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A distinct population of Tnc+ myofibroblasts (cluster iFb5) emerges from adventitial fibroblasts during ligation-induced neointimal hyperplasia

  carotid adventitial pdgfrα nih-3t3 scrna-seq spatial immunofluorescence

• Ectopic CD11c Drives SMAD3-Mediated Aberrant Antigen Presentation and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

  PMID 41799568 · PMC12963642 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 13 setups

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  An ESCC epithelial cell subcluster with ectopic CD11c (ITGAX) expression, found in both mice and humans, exhibits concurrent impaired antigen presentation and EMT phenotypes

  4-nqo-induced escc esophageal lung multiplex flow whole-genome

• 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

• Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8(+) T cells.

  PMID 37081150 · PMC10154250 · Nature immunology · 2023 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Orthogonal engineering with PD1d/IL-2v/IL-33 reprograms adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells into a novel synthetic effector state (C5/TSE) that deviates from canonical TOX+ exhaustion

  cd8+ b16-ova ot1 mice scrna-seq flow secretion

• Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer.

  PMID 41565826 · PMC12960256 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The HPCS is a transcriptionally distinct cancer cell state that functions as a hub for reciprocal transitions between other cancer cell states

  autochthonous kpfrt gfp+ sorted single-cell flow immunofluorescence

• Midostaurin response in AML is shaped by a progenitor-like cell state selectively targeted by SMAC mimetics.

  PMID 41813823 · PMC12996285 · NPJ precision oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A progenitor-like CD38+CD45RA+ leukemic cell population is associated with midostaurin resistance

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• 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

• Integrative CSF profiling identifies disease-specific immune responses in leptomeningeal disease.

  PMID 41794040 · PMC13006398 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSF exhibits distinct, disease-specific immune landscapes across CNSL, BrMs, and GB-associated LMD

  csf peripheral brain cell-free single-cell deep spatial

• Teasing apart the joint effect of demography and natural selection in the birth of a contact zone.

  PMID 36093739 · PMC9828440 · The New phytologist · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Natural selection contributed to the establishment and maintenance of the Scandinavian contact zone between the NFE and CSE genetic clusters.

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• 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