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

• 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

• CCL3+ Neutrophil Signature Predicts Response to Neoadjuvant Toripalimab plus Chemotherapy in Patients with Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Phase II Trial.

  PMID 41817286 · PMC13223550 · Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A proinflammatory, CCL3-high neutrophil subset (Neu_CCL3) is significantly enriched in the pretreatment tumor microenvironment of patients who respond to nCIT.

  pretreatment microarray cohorts moc1 single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• 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 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

• Vitamin C Conditioning Generates Tumor-Targeting CAR T Cells with Superior Cytotoxicity and Fitness in a Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder Tumor Model.

  PMID 41416402 · PMC13136873 · Molecular cancer therapeutics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  VitC conditioning enhances transduction efficiency and proliferative capacity, yielding a higher yield of CD4+ and CD8+ CAR19-Ts

  cd3+ je6-1 car19-ts coculture flow nf-κb cytotoxicity

• 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

• A pan-cancer single cell landscape reveals heterogeneity and functional diversity of double-negative T cells.

  PMID 41484771 · PMC12882460 · Molecular cancer · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Integration of pan-cancer scRNA-seq data yields a comprehensive single-cell atlas of 157,025 high-quality DNT cells across 23 cancer types.

  tumor dnt ffpe mc38 scrna-seq tcr multiplex

• 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

• ISG15-driven immune modulation and tumor progression in breast cancer metastasis: insights from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639695 · PMC12958617 · BMC medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CSC proportion is elevated in lymph node metastatic tumor tissue (BRCA_LNMT) compared to primary tumor (BRCA_PT)

  4t1 brca tcga-brca top single-cell spatial bulk

• Dynamics of lung-infiltrating virus-specific T cells associated with age-dependent SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia severity.

  PMID 41533733 · PMC12829949 · PLoS pathogens · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Aged Nr4a3-Tocky mice develop more severe pneumonia and delayed body weight recovery after SARS-CoV-2 infection than adult mice

  nr4a3-tocky bronchoalveolar lung left viral histopathology immunohistochemistry

• CD38 expression by neonatal human naive CD4+ T cells shapes their distinct metabolic and tolerogenic properties.

  PMID 41746743 · PMC13078883 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CD38 is markedly more highly expressed on cord blood (CB) naive CD4+ T cells than adult blood (AB) naive CD4+ T cells, with an age-dependent gradient from fetal to pediatric life.

  pbmcs sorted scrna-seq naive flow bulk compass

• IFN signaling is associated with radiotherapy response in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors.

  PMID 41766654 · PMC12948414 · The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MPNST cells are more radioresistant than benign plexiform neurofibroma (pNF) cells in vitro

  mpnst st88-14 nf9511.b jh-2-002 flow fractionated bulk

• TOPK Suppresses the CD8(+) T Cell Antitumor Immunity via Modulation of IRF5 Expression.

  PMID 41868885 · PMC13003159 · Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A TOPK+ subset of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells exists in melanoma at higher frequency than in normal lymph nodes and shows suppressed cytotoxic/cytokine programs.

  tumor-infiltrating melanoma b16-f10 unspecified scrna-seq flow multiplex

• Metabolic adaptations rewire CD4(+) T cells in a subset-specific manner in human critical illness with and without sepsis.

  PMID 41540263 · PMC12864044 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  CD4+ T cells in critical illness show subset-specific metabolic plasticity, with regulatory T (Treg) cells preferentially acquiring glycolytic capacity

  pbmc-derived peripheral cd4+ puromycin-incorporation complete expression