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cd8-til.jpg Fig 1K–L crop: CD8 immunohistochemistry of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes in advanced laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (positive cases, ×100 and ×400) Özgür E, Tan A, Yersal Ö, Eskiizmir G, Oktay E. “Expression of LAG-3, TIM-3, and VISTA on Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Advanced Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.” Biomedicines. 2026;14(7):1587 doi:10.3390/biomedicines14071587 · PMCID: PMC13407369 Fig 1K–L (cropped) CC BY 4.0 Özgür E et al., Biomedicines 2026, Fig 1K–L, CC BY 4.0
cd8-detail.jpg Magnified crop of panel L: infiltrating CD8+ lymphocytes (derived, same license) Derived from Özgür E et al., Biomedicines 2026, Fig 1L doi:10.3390/biomedicines14071587 · PMCID: PMC13407369 Fig 1L (magnified crop) CC BY 4.0 Derived crop · Özgür E et al., Biomedicines 2026, CC BY 4.0

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1AO7 Human T-cell receptor in complex with Tax peptide / HLA-A2 Molecular panels (TCR–pMHC + detail inset)

Rejected candidates (not used)

Candidate Why rejected
LAG-3 / TIM-3 / VISTA panels (A–I) from the same paper Show checkpoint markers rather than the CD8 effector cells at the center of this page's claim; panels K–L used instead