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).

• Longitudinal Profiling of Tumor and Immune Compartments Uncovers Patterns of Dysregulation and Associations with Response in Multiple Myeloma.

  PMID 41364805 · PMC13012255 · Blood cancer discovery · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  IFN-γ signaling after autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) is associated with markers of impaired CD8+ T-cell memory phenotype

  cd138neg cd138pos bone cd8+ single-cell bulk whole-genome

• Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics Characterizes Immune Microenvironment During Mouse Liver Aging.

  PMID 42010880 · PMC13096584 · Aging cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T cells are the immune cell population with the most pronounced transcriptomic alterations during liver aging

  liver nash cirrhotic hcc scrna-seq snrna-seq stereo-seq

• 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

• 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

• Heterogeneity and Differentiation Trajectories of Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells in Lung Adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 36358600 · PMC9658355 · Cancers · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells in LUAD can be divided into ten transcriptionally distinct subsets: eight cytotoxic (CTL) subsets, one naive-like (NTL) subset, and one exhausted (ETL) subset.

  luad tcga cd8+ degs single-cell cibersort survival

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Development of double-positive thymocytes at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 33771202 · PMC8004397 · Genome medicine · 2021 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  DP thymocytes can be classified into blast, rearrangement, and selection subtypes, distinguishable by surface markers CD2 and Ly6d

  thymocytes sorted thymocyte scrna-seq flow immunofluorescence

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Hypoxia-driven remodeling of SELENOP(+) macrophages shapes T cell dynamics and promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.

  PMID 41526347 · PMC12852879 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SELENOP+ macrophages co-occur and spatially co-localize with precursor exhausted (GZMH+) CD8+ T cells and activate these T cells via selenoprotein P in vitro and in vivo.

  hgsoc million pseudo-bulk hgsoc-derived scrna-seq sctcr-seq spatial

• 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

• Opioid-induced transcriptional reprogramming of cerebrospinal fluid immune cells is associated with neuroinflammatory signaling in antiretroviral treated SIV-infected rhesus macaques.

  PMID 42010620 · PMC13227897 · Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Morphine-dependent macaques show increased CD4+ TCM and Treg cell proportions and decreased CD8+ TEM cell proportions in CSF at the pre-infection timepoint compared to saline controls

  csf scrna-seq necropsy single-cell flow cell-cell

• 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 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