Ex vivo activation unmasks a sex-convergent, exhaustion-associated CD8+ T cell expansion in Parkinsons disease
Friederike Grandke, Caroline Diener, Bianca Becher, Anouck Becker, Nicole Ludwig, Barbara Walch‐Rückheim, Tanja Tänzer, Klaus-Ulrich Dillmann, Martin Hart, Marcus Unger, Klaus C Fassbender, Eckart Meese, Andreas Keller
The paper profiles PBMCs from PD patients and controls using single-cell RNA sequencing after ex vivo activation, finding sex-convergent CD8+ T cell exhaustion associated with disease.
bioRxiv · Aug 20, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience