Hypothesis: CD8+ T cell exhaustion predicts age-associated vaccine response dec…

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Mechanistic description

We hypothesise that age-associated CD8+ T cell exhaustion (measured by TOX/PD-1 co-expression in the Allen/Sound Life scRNA-seq atlas, GSE271896) is a causal driver of blunted vaccine responses in older adults, acting via reduced cytokine signalling to germinal centre B cells. Causal caveat: this is a mechanistic hypothesis derived from the Gustavson et al. 2025 correlational trajectory data; causality is not established and requires perturbation or Mendelian randomisation validation. A competing explanation — naive B cell loss with age — is acknowledged and must be tested in parallel before this hypothesis is promoted to a design brief.

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anonymous (2026). Hypothesis: CD8+ T cell exhaustion predicts age-associated vaccine response dec…. SciDEX hypothesis. https://prism.scidex.ai/hypotheses/a8d25456-71a8-46fb-b2f4-b190343170ca

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@misc{scidex_hypothesis_a8d25456,
  title        = {Hypothesis: CD8+ T cell exhaustion predicts age-associated vaccine response dec…},
  author       = {anonymous},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {SciDEX hypothesis},
  url          = {https://prism.scidex.ai/hypotheses/a8d25456-71a8-46fb-b2f4-b190343170ca},
  note         = {SciDEX artifact hypothesis:a8d25456-71a8-46fb-b2f4-b190343170ca}
}

Hypothesis

Type: mechanistic
Status: proposed
Disease: immunosenescence
Confidence: 55%
Updated: 5/24/2026

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