Assessing the origin of high-grade serous ovarian cancer using CRISPR-modification of mouse organoids

K Lõhmussaar, O Kopper, J Korving, H Begthel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HG-SOC)—often referred to as a “silent killer”—is the
most lethal gynecological malignancy. The fallopian tube (murine oviduct) and ovarian …

CRISPR/Cas9-derived models of ovarian high grade serous carcinoma targeting Brca1, Pten and Nf1, and correlation with platinum sensitivity

JB Walton, M Farquharson, S Mason, J Port… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Transplantable murine models of ovarian high grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) remain an
important research tool. We previously showed that ID8, a widely-used syngeneic model of …

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Trp53 and Brca2 Knockout to Generate Improved Murine Models of Ovarian High-Grade Serous Carcinoma

J Walton, J Blagih, D Ennis, E Leung, S Dowson… - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
There is a need for transplantable murine models of ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma
(HGSC) with regard to mutations in the human disease to assist investigations of the …

Genetically defined, syngeneic organoid platform for developing combination therapies for ovarian cancer

S Zhang, S Iyer, H Ran, I Dolgalev, S Gu, W Wei… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The paucity of genetically informed, immunocompetent tumor models impedes evaluation of
conventional, targeted, and immune therapies. By engineering mouse fallopian tube …

Both fallopian tube and ovarian surface epithelium are cells-of-origin for high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma

S Zhang, I Dolgalev, T Zhang, H Ran, DA Levine… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The cell-of-origin of high grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) remains controversial,
with fallopian tube epithelium (FTE) and ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) both considered …

High grade serous ovarian carcinomas originate in the fallopian tube

SI Labidi-Galy, E Papp, D Hallberg, N Niknafs… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is the most frequent type of ovarian cancer
and has a poor outcome. It has been proposed that fallopian tube cancers may be …

Stable expansion of high‐grade serous ovarian cancer organoids requires a low‐Wnt environment

K Hoffmann, H Berger, H Kulbe… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
High‐grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) likely originates from the fallopian tube (FT)
epithelium. Here, we established 15 organoid lines from HGSOC primary tumor deposits that …

Single-cell RNA-seq recognized the initiator of epithelial ovarian cancer recurrence

T Kan, S Zhang, S Zhou, Y Zhang, Y Zhao, Y Gao… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs) are sensitive to chemotherapy but will ultimately relapse
and develop drug resistance. The origin of EOC recurrence has been elusive due to intra …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling high-grade serous carcinoma: how converging insights into pathogenesis and genetics are driving better experimental platforms

PM Jones, R Drapkin - Frontiers in oncology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Recent developments in the study of epithelial ovarian cancer have called into question the
traditional views regarding the site of tumor initiation. Histopathologic studies and genomic …

[PDF][PDF] A platform for efficient establishment and drug-response profiling of high-grade serous ovarian cancer organoids

W Senkowski, L Gall-Mas, MM Falco, Y Li, K Lavikka… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The broad research use of organoids from high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC) has
been hampered by low culture success rates and limited availability of fresh tumor material …