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).

• 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

• 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

• Innate antiviral and immune functions associated with the HIV reservoir decay after anti-PD-1 therapy.

  PMID 41680482 · PMC12920136 · Nature medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  Anti-PD-1 therapy triggers a rapid (within 24 hours) systemic cascade of increased IFN/antiviral, monocyte, and CD8+ T cell effector transcriptomic modules alongside decreased plasma TGFβ.

  pbmcs plasma pbmc publicly bulk plasma integrated

• 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

• Indoleamine 2, 3-Dioxygenase 1 and CD8 Expression Profiling Revealed an Immunological Subtype of Colon Cancer With a Poor Prognosis.

  PMID 33425745 · PMC7793995 · Frontiers in oncology · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A colon cancer subtype with CD8Ahigh IDO1high tumors shows the worst survival despite high CD8 T cell infiltrates

  tcga-coad ncbi-geo tisidb gepia rna-seq tumor-infiltrating gene

• 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

• TGF-β mediates epigenetic control of innate antiviral responses and SIV reservoir size.

  PMID 41862649 · PMC13043299 · Nature immunology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Combo treatment (anti-IL-10 + anti-PD-1) induces IFN/antiviral gene signatures pre-ATI that are inversely correlated with CA-vDNA, CA-vRNA and 2-LTR circles post-ATI

  lnmcs plasma cd4+ rhesus bulk high-dimensional plasma

• Tumor and Immune Dynamics Following Sequential CDK4/6 and PD-1 Inhibition: Results from a Phase 2 Study in Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma.

  PMID 41325133 · PMC13037771 · Cancer research communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A palbociclib lead-in prior to retifanlimab produced a high rate of immune-related adverse events, leading to halted enrollment.

  tumor peripheral patients single-cell high-parameter clinical

• Genomic and Immune Landscape of Recurrent and/or Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck Progressing on Anti-PD-1 Treatment.

  PMID 41666253 · PMC13044521 · Cancer immunology research · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Tumor biopsies from anti-PD-1-resistant SCCHN show significantly more EGFR and MYCL amplifications and increased MYC pathway alterations compared with anti-PD-1-naive tumors

  ffpe blood tumor whole-exome bulk multiplex

• Vaccine-induced ICOS(+)CD38(+) circulating Tfh are sensitive biosensors of age-related changes in inflammatory pathways.

  PMID 34095875 · PMC8149371 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Vaccine-induced ICOS+CD38+ cTfh from elderly adults show increased TNF-NF-κB pathway transcriptional signaling compared to young adults at day 7 post-vaccination

  pbmc sorted rna-seq icos+cd38+ flow bulk gene

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The ubiquitin ligase KLHL6 drives resistance to CD8(+) T cell dysfunction.

  PMID 41535474 · PMC12979199 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  KLHL6 is a dual-negative regulator of both T cell exhaustion and mitochondrial dysfunction

  cd8+ cas9+ sgklhl6-transduced klhl6 bulk pooled flow

• A pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human bone metastases.

  PMID 41619722 · PMC12923970 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Constructed a pan-cancer single-cell transcriptomic atlas of 62 human bone metastases (predominantly spinal) across 13 primary cancer types, with paired primary tumor and normal bone marrow samples.

  bone paired plasmacytoma malignant scrna-seq ihc infercnv

• Single-cell mapping of cholesterol metabolism reveals FDPS as a therapeutic vulnerability in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41706364 · PMC12916967 · Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Cholesterol metabolic activity is markedly elevated in HCC tumors and in immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) non-responders, with pronounced intratumoral heterogeneity across malignant cell subpopulations

  hcc tcga-lihc malignant hepa1-6 scrna-seq bulk hdwgcna

• 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

• 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

• Identifying Molecular Subtypes and 6-Gene Prognostic Signature Based on Hypoxia for Optimizing Targeted Therapies in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

  PMID 35509605 · PMC9058021 · International journal of general medicine · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NSCLC samples can be classified into two molecular subtypes (C1 and C2) based on hypoxia-related gene expression via consensus clustering

  tcga-nsclc geo bulk microarray unsupervised