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ArticleNPJ precision oncology2025

Perfusion-based ex vivo culture of frozen ovarian cancer tissues with preserved tumor microenvironment.

Monica De Luise, Ivana Kurelac, Sara Coluccelli, Antonio De Leo, Ewelina M Bartoszek, Maria Iorio, Marco Grillini, Camelia Alexandra Coadă, Dario de Biase, Lorena Marchio and 10 more

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Article in NPJ precision oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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20 authors.

Monica De LuiseDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Ivana KurelacDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Sara ColuccelliSolid Tumor Molecular Pathology Laboratory, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Antonio De LeoDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Ewelina M BartoszekMicroscopy Core Facility, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Maria IorioDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Marco GrilliniPathology Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Camelia Alexandra CoadăDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Dario de BiaseSolid Tumor Molecular Pathology Laboratory, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Lorena MarchioDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Mónica Núñez LópezOvarian Cancer Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Natalie RimmerOvarian Cancer Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Anna Myriam PerroneDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Pierandrea De IacoDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Anna Maria PorcelliIRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Viola HeinzelmannOvarian Cancer Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Ivan MartinTissue Engineering, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Francis JacobOvarian Cancer Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Manuele Giuseppe Muraro *Tissue Engineering, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. manuele.muraro@unibas.ch.
Giuseppe Gasparre *Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. giuseppe.gasparre3@unibo.it.

Funding

Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) project IG 2019 22921Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) project IG 2020 24494Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2022) 202272LY8WSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 171037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian cancer (OC) poses significant treatment challenges due to late-stage diagnosis and a complex tumor microenvironment contributing to therapy resistance. We optimized a U-CUP perfusion-based bioreactor method to culture patient-derived primary and metastatic OC specimens, demonstrating that perfusion better preserves cancer cell viability and proliferation, both when fresh and slow-frozen tissues were used. Perfused cultures maintained key microenvironment components, including cancer-associated fibroblasts, endothelial and immune cells. Genetic analysis confirmed the retention in culture of tumor-specific driver mutations. We hence challenged ad hoc generated cisplatin-sensitive and resistant OC cells with cisplatin during growth in U-CUP, validating our system for the testing of drug response. Finally, treatment of slow-frozen OC tissues with carboplatin/paclitaxel revealed different degrees of response to treatment, as indicated by variations in tumor necrosis and number of residual PAX8

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