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ArticleScientific reports2025

Culture of cryopreserved first trimester placental tissues to study syncytial renewal.

Mary Mansilla, Yao Wang, Guiying Nie

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3 authors.

Mary MansillaImplantation and Pregnancy Research Laboratory, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia.
Yao WangImplantation and Pregnancy Research Laboratory, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia.
Guiying NieImplantation and Pregnancy Research Laboratory, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3083, Australia. guiying.nie@rmit.edu.au.

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National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia 1189145
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ex vivo studies with first trimester placental tissues are crucial for understanding human placental development, and culturing placental villi in floating conditions is vital to mimic the natural setting. Moreover, being able to cryopreserve these scarce materials for ex vivo studies would open unprecedented avenues, as they are very limited to research and the need to culture freshly adds further hurdles while limiting efficient use. Here we showed that hanging drop method is a simple yet effective approach to culture placental floating villi. We also revealed that these functional units of the early-stage human placenta can be cryopreserved for culturing, and that frozen-thawed villi can regenerate the syncytial layer following denudation. We further illustrated the utility of frozen-thawed tissues to study syncytialization, while validating the importance of HtrA4 in the process which was shown previously in cell models. These represent significant new knowledge to the field of placental biology.

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Chorionic VilliCryopreservationPlacentaPregnancy Trimester, FirstTissue Culture TechniquesTrophoblastsFemaleHumansPregnancyCryopreservationExplantFirst trimester human placentaHanging dropHtrA4Syncytialization

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PMID39929934
PMCPMC11810994

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