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).

• 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

• 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

• 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

  healthy tcga luad til-b flow bulk single-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

• Neoadjuvant sintilimab plus chemotherapy in EGFR-mutant NSCLC: Phase 2 trial interim results (NEOTIDE/CTONG2104).

  PMID 38897205 · PMC11293361 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neoadjuvant sintilimab plus carboplatin/nab-paclitaxel is clinically feasible and tolerable in resectable EGFR-mutant NSCLC, with all 18 patients completing treatment and undergoing radical surgery.

  pre resected tumor serial whole-exome bulk single-cell

• 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

• Multi-modal skin atlas identifies a multicellular immune-stromal community associated with disrupted cornification and specific T cell expansion in atopic dermatitis.

  PMID 41741455 · PMC13057205 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Generated a multi-modal single-cell atlas of 280,518 cells from 27 samples/17 adults (healthy, AD non-lesional/lesional, scleroderma), integrated with 430,186 cells from four prior studies into a 710,704-cell human skin atlas with 86 annotated granular cell subsets.

  skin healthy keratinocytes re-annotated droplet-based scrna-seq bulk

• 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

• Inference of SARS-CoV-2 exposure biomarkers using large-scale T-cell repertoire profiling.

  PMID 41680899 · PMC12903587 · Genome medicine · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel batch-effect correction method (log-normal gene usage modeling, Z-score normalization, and roulette-wheel resampling) allows combining AIRR-seq data from different batches and protocols.

  blood peripheral batch-corrected airr-seq airr-seq hla tcrβ

• 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

• Evaluating the practical aspects and performance of commercial single-cell RNA sequencing technologies.

  PMID 41503158 · PMC12770963 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A comprehensive comparison of seven 3'/whole-transcriptome single-cell platforms and two 5' whole-transcriptome + TCR platforms was performed using PBMCs from multiple donors.

  pbmcs sorted scrna-seq evercode

• 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

• 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

• Meta-analysis of COVID-19 single-cell studies confirms eight key immune responses.

  PMID 34675242 · PMC8531356 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Only 8 of 20 previously published COVID-19 scRNA-seq findings were reproducible across all relevant datasets in a standardized meta-analysis

  pbmc bronchoalveolar nasopharyngeal combined scrna-seq tcr bcr

• Loss of SOCS1 in Donor T Cells Exacerbates Intestinal GVHD by Driving a Chemokine-Dependent Pro-Inflammatory Immune Microenvironment.

  PMID 41580972 · PMC13042394 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  T cell-specific Socs1 loss intrinsically drives pro-inflammatory T cell differentiation independent of antigen stimulation, with the strongest effects in CD8+ T cells

  cd45+ splenic cd8+ sorted single-cell flow bulk

• Tumour-intrinsic features shape T cell differentiation through precursor to symptomatic multiple myeloma.

  PMID 41644568 · PMC12982522 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MM is not characterized by T cell exhaustion but by antigen-driven terminal memory differentiation, unlike solid cancers

  bone cd69+ cd8+ smm single-cell cite-seq gene

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Loss of CD4(+) T cell-intrinsic arginase 1 accelerates Th1 response kinetics and reduces lung pathology during influenza infection.

  PMID 37572656 · PMC10576612 · Immunity · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Arg1 is highly and specifically induced in lung CD4+ T cells during in vivo influenza infection

  flow-sort-purified lung cd4+ congenically rna-seq flow expression