Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumors

Abstract Meningiomas are the most common primary central nervous system tumor. Clinical trials have failed to support effective medical treatments, despite initially promising animal studies. A key issue could be that available experimental models fail to mimic the clinical situation. Hence, there i...

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Main Authors: Mikkel Schou Andersen, Bo Halle, Martin Wirenfeldt, Jeanette Krogh Petersen, Morten Winkler Møller, Philipp Jurmeister, Birgitte Brinkmann Olsen, Bjarne Winther Kristensen, Henning Boldt, Christian Bonde Pedersen, Tiit Mathiesen, Frantz Rom Poulsen
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author Mikkel Schou Andersen
Bo Halle
Martin Wirenfeldt
Jeanette Krogh Petersen
Morten Winkler Møller
Philipp Jurmeister
Birgitte Brinkmann Olsen
Bjarne Winther Kristensen
Henning Boldt
Christian Bonde Pedersen
Tiit Mathiesen
Frantz Rom Poulsen
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Bo Halle
Martin Wirenfeldt
Jeanette Krogh Petersen
Morten Winkler Møller
Philipp Jurmeister
Birgitte Brinkmann Olsen
Bjarne Winther Kristensen
Henning Boldt
Christian Bonde Pedersen
Tiit Mathiesen
Frantz Rom Poulsen
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description Abstract Meningiomas are the most common primary central nervous system tumor. Clinical trials have failed to support effective medical treatments, despite initially promising animal studies. A key issue could be that available experimental models fail to mimic the clinical situation. Hence, there is a need for meningioma models with high translational value for understanding pathophysiology and tests of possible medical treatments. Resemblance between models and clinical meningiomas should be optimized with respect to morphology, immunohistochemistry and epigenetic factors, which we aimed to do. Third passage primary patient-derived benign meningiomas were implanted intracranially in athymic nude rats. The animals were euthanized after three months. We found intra- and intertumoral variability in terms of tumor take rate (79.5% for superficially implanted cells and 25% for deeply implanted cells) and xenograft sizes. There were close resemblance between primary tumors and xenografts in morphology and immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, we performed DNA-methylation using the EPIC 850 K array on three pairs of primary tumors and xenografts. Copy number variation profiles and correlation plots on CpGs showed a high degree of similarities between primary tumors and corresponding xenografts. On differential methylation analysis, most probes were insignificant (866,074), 25 were hypermethylated, and 382 were hypomethylated, where no significant differentially methylated regions were revealed.
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spelling doaj-art-28f1b85345624c69bf63dc8407bf978e2025-08-20T03:41:42ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222024-12-0114111610.1038/s41598-024-83456-7Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumorsMikkel Schou Andersen0Bo Halle1Martin Wirenfeldt2Jeanette Krogh Petersen3Morten Winkler Møller4Philipp Jurmeister5Birgitte Brinkmann Olsen6Bjarne Winther Kristensen7Henning Boldt8Christian Bonde Pedersen9Tiit Mathiesen10Frantz Rom Poulsen11Department of Neurosurgery, Odense University HospitalDepartment of Neurosurgery, Odense University HospitalBRIDGE (Brain Research ‑ Inter Disciplinary Guided Excellence), University of Southern DenmarkDepartment of Pathology, Odense University HospitalDepartment of Neurosurgery, Odense University HospitalInstitute of Pathology, Ludwig Maximilians University Hospital MunichDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Southern DenmarkDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Biotech Research and Innovation Center (BRIC), University of CopenhagenDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Southern DenmarkDepartment of Neurosurgery, Odense University HospitalDepartment of Neurosurgery, Rigshospitalet, and Copenhagen UniversityDepartment of Neurosurgery, Odense University HospitalAbstract Meningiomas are the most common primary central nervous system tumor. Clinical trials have failed to support effective medical treatments, despite initially promising animal studies. A key issue could be that available experimental models fail to mimic the clinical situation. Hence, there is a need for meningioma models with high translational value for understanding pathophysiology and tests of possible medical treatments. Resemblance between models and clinical meningiomas should be optimized with respect to morphology, immunohistochemistry and epigenetic factors, which we aimed to do. Third passage primary patient-derived benign meningiomas were implanted intracranially in athymic nude rats. The animals were euthanized after three months. We found intra- and intertumoral variability in terms of tumor take rate (79.5% for superficially implanted cells and 25% for deeply implanted cells) and xenograft sizes. There were close resemblance between primary tumors and xenografts in morphology and immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, we performed DNA-methylation using the EPIC 850 K array on three pairs of primary tumors and xenografts. Copy number variation profiles and correlation plots on CpGs showed a high degree of similarities between primary tumors and corresponding xenografts. On differential methylation analysis, most probes were insignificant (866,074), 25 were hypermethylated, and 382 were hypomethylated, where no significant differentially methylated regions were revealed.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83456-7MeningiomaXenograftOrthotopic tumor modelIn vivoDNA methylation profiling
spellingShingle Mikkel Schou Andersen
Bo Halle
Martin Wirenfeldt
Jeanette Krogh Petersen
Morten Winkler Møller
Philipp Jurmeister
Birgitte Brinkmann Olsen
Bjarne Winther Kristensen
Henning Boldt
Christian Bonde Pedersen
Tiit Mathiesen
Frantz Rom Poulsen
Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumors
Scientific Reports
Meningioma
Xenograft
Orthotopic tumor model
In vivo
DNA methylation profiling
title Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumors
title_full Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumors
title_fullStr Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumors
title_full_unstemmed Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumors
title_short Orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient-derived tumors
title_sort orthotopic meningioma rat model exhibits morphological and immunohistochemical congruency and epigenetic concordance with benign primary patient derived tumors
topic Meningioma
Xenograft
Orthotopic tumor model
In vivo
DNA methylation profiling
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83456-7
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