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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

• PD-1 blockade plus tyrosine kinase inhibitor remodels the tumor microenvironment in advanced renal cell carcinoma.

  PMID 41916996 · PMC13199584 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Non-responders to TKI±ICI therapy show increased neutrophil infiltration and enrichment of SAA+ tumor cells after treatment.

  arcc pre post-treatment tumor single-cell multiplex ligand-receptor

• 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

• 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

• 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 analysis highlights the significance of malignant cell IFN/MHC-II for immunotherapy response in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

  PMID 41923630 · PMC13130666 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  A malignant cell subset expressing IFN-response and MHC-II genes (IFN/MHC-II) increases in proportion after pembrolizumab treatment and is associated with response

  hnscc ffpe syngeneic independent single-cell multiplexed tumor

• PRDM1+ Malignant Cells Mediate an Immunosuppressive Landscape and Resistance to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy and Immunotherapy in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

  PMID 41556358 · PMC13042517 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A PRDM1+ malignant epithelial cell subcluster (Epi_C4) is enriched in NMPR patients and is associated with nICRT treatment resistance

  locally escc pd-1 kyse-30 single-arm scrna-seq bulk

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Single-cell mitophagy signature-based artificial intelligence model enhances prediction of prognosis and immunotherapy response in non-small-cell lung cancer.

  PMID 41851738 · PMC13112628 · Respiratory research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A six-gene MRG panel (FOS, CANX, EIF4G1, CALCOCO2, HSP90AB1, PRKAR1A) was selected via LASSO regression as prognostic markers in NSCLC.

  nsclc tcga external immunotherapy single-cell bulk transcriptomic

• 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

• Expansion and mobilization of virus-specific stem-like CD8 T cells in chronic viral infection after treatment with a long-acting IL-7, NT-I7.

  PMID 41920738 · PMC13222646 · Cell reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NT-I7 preferentially expands PD-1+TCF1+Tim-3- stem-like virus-specific CD8 T cells rather than effector/TD subsets during chronic LCMV infection

  chronic chronically lcmv-specific spleen flow ki67 intracellular

• 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

• scComm: a contrastive learning framework for deciphering cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 41877186 · PMC13134144 · Genome biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  scComm infers cell-cell communications at single-cell resolution using a data-adaptive L-R weighting module and supervised contrastive learning (SupCon loss) to distinguish significant CCC events from background noise

  simulated spatial liver single-cell simulated spatial scrna-seq

• The landscape of responses to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in resectable Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog-mutant lung adenocarcinoma: Clinical heterogeneity and correlative immunologic analysis.

  PMID 42011021 · PMC13096693 · Clinical and translational medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  KRAS-mutant LUAD patients show significantly poorer pathological response and inferior long-term survival after neoadjuvant immunotherapy compared to KRAS-wildtype patients

  resected resectable epithelial cd4t_treg_tnfrsf4 scrna-seq retrospective cnv

• Reinvigorating COTL1(high) NK cells via GITR signalling overcomes immune checkpoint blockade resistance in tsMHC-I-impaired tumours.

  PMID 41912896 · PMC13179135 · Nature cell biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A COTL1-high NK cell subset mediates immune checkpoint blockade responsiveness in tsMHC-I impaired tumours

  hcc sorted orthotopic multiplex bulk single-cell

• 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