# OnCo record cd8 (target). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/targets/cd8/>
  a schema:BioChemEntity ;
  onco:kind "target" ;
  schema:identifier "cd8" ;
  schema:name "CD8"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "CD8a"@en, "CD8 alpha"@en, "T8"@en, "CD8A" ;
  schema:description "CD8 marks the T cells that kill: the ones that recognise a cancer cell and destroy it. How many CD8 cells sit inside a tumour, and where, is one of the few immune measurements that predicts how a cancer will behave."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/targets/cd8/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-10-16"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD8> ;
  schema:citation <https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:1706>, <https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15020418> ;
  onco:tag "immune-marker" ;
  onco:targetClass "surface-antigen" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/targets/cd4/>, <https://onco.cc/targets/pd1/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/t-cell/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cold-vs-hot/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/t-cell-exhaustion-term/> .