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

• Phased differentiation of γδ T and T CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes revealed by single-cell transcriptomics of human cancers.

  PMID 34721945 · PMC8555559 · Oncoimmunology · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  In tumors, TCRVγnon9 γδ T cells (the majority γδ TIL subset) are quantitatively correlated and aligned with T CD8 cells for differentiation, exhaustion, gene expression profile, and response to immune checkpoint therapy

  pbmc tumor syngeneic scrnaseq cite-seq flow

• 5-HT reuptake blockade induces pyroptosis in BRAF(V600E)-mutated melanomas via remodeling histone serotonylation.

  PMID 41494533 · PMC12866116 · Cell reports. Medicine · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-throughput screening of 90 FDA-approved antidepressants identifies PH as an alternative therapeutic for BRAF V600E-mutated melanoma

  braf a375 gfp-tph1-overexpressing yumm1.7 high-throughput ic50 xenograft

• 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

• Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Characterization of Infiltrating T Cells in Moderately Differentiated Colorectal Cancer.

  PMID 33584715 · PMC7873865 · Frontiers in immunology · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Eight distinct T cell populations are identifiable in CRC tumor tissue and seven in peripheral blood by unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data.

  tumor peripheral cd4+ eight single-cell unsupervised ligand-receptor

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

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

  Has reproduction · 67

  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

• Integrative network modeling reveals mechanisms underlying T cell exhaustion.

  PMID 32024856 · PMC7002445 · Scientific reports · 2020 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  TCE arises from changes in diverse gene regulatory interactions across a shared network rather than dysregulation of a single gene

  cd8+ tce manual gene principal

• Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 33674593 · PMC7935900 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A transcriptome-derived T-cell exhaustion score (ES) is prognostic for HCC patient survival independent of known clinical/molecular factors

  hcc-associated hcc malignant cd8+ single-cell bulk metabolomics

• 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

• IRSN-23 gene diagnosis enhances breast cancer subtype classification and predicts response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy: new validation analyses.

  PMID 40128415 · PMC11993443 · Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 71

  IRSN-23 Gp-R patients have significantly higher pCR rates than Gp-NR patients without anti-HER2 therapy, across the OUH cohort and multiple independent public datasets

  breast microarray rna-seq exome

• 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 · 6 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 across three independent cohorts.

  pbmcs sorted skin multiparameter targeted tcr

• 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

• M6A-mediated molecular patterns and tumor microenvironment infiltration characterization in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

  PMID 38532632 · PMC10978033 · Cancer biology & therapy · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NPC patients can be divided into two distinct m6A-related molecular subclasses based on prognostic m6A regulator expression

  npc gse102349 clinical expression ssgsea cibersort

• An individualized causal framework for learning intercellular communication networks that define microenvironments of individual tumors.

  PMID 36548438 · PMC9822106 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  An individualized Bayesian causal discovery framework can learn tumor-specific intercellular communication networks (ICNs) by combining single-cell gene expression module (GEM) discovery, bulk tumor deconvolution, and individualized causal network learning.

  hnscc cd45+ cd8+ tcga single-cell bulk pseudo-time

• Liver-specific paraoxonase-1 alleviates regulatory T cell-driven immunosuppression via metabolic reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma.

  PMID 41387425 · PMC12701056 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PON1 expression is downregulated in HCC tumor tissue and low PON1 is associated with worse prognosis

  hcc paired hepa1-6 pon1-nc bioinformatic immunohistochemistry orthotopic

• Elucidating the Prognostic and Therapeutic Implications of Insulin Resistance Genes in Breast Cancer: A Machine Learning-Powered Analysis.

  PMID 40427728 · PMC12109394 · Biology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A seven-gene IRG prognostic signature (LIFR, EZR, TBC1D4, NSF, RPL5, SAA1, PGK1) predicts overall survival in breast cancer across training and four validation cohorts

  tcga-brca triple-negative ffpe bulk univariate kaplan-meier

• 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

• Machine learning-based identification of an immunotherapy-related signature to enhance outcomes and immunotherapy responses in melanoma.

  PMID 39355255 · PMC11442245 · Frontiers in immunology · 2024 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  66 consensus immunotherapy prognostic genes (CITPGs) were identified from the intersection of WGCNA modules, immunotherapy responder-vs-non-responder DEGs, and tumor-vs-normal DEGs

  melanoma tcga-skcm prjeb23709 microarray wgcna differential consensus

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Removal of batch effects in reference scRNA-seq datasets (via Harmony-Symphony) benefits the task of cell composition deconvolution

  pbmc derived tcga-lihc scrna-seq simulated bulk