Perfusion Bioreactor Technology for Organoid and Tissue Culture: A Mini Review

Onco · Published 2025-04-09 · DOI 10.3390/onco5020017

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Abstract

Organoid culture is an emerging and promising 3D culture system by which three-dimensional cell aggregates have been produced from different organs and tissues. This new innovative culture technology preserves parental gene expression, as well as the biological features of parental cells in vitro and ensures maintenance of three-dimensional cell culture for prolonged periods, opening new encouraged scientific scenarios and making them a functioning and valid system for testing new drugs for tissue engineering studies and precision oncology medicine. Various research focused on organoids has been performed in perfusion bioreactors, an advanced device able to mimic the tumor environment, providing a physiological growth state and a long-term culture viability. Perfusion bioreactors have been used for the maintenance and growth of organoids as well as for tumor patient samples improving proliferation while supporting the development of extracellular matrix (ECM). The ability to mimic the tumor environment and to maintain patient-derived biopsies for a long time makes perfusion bioreactors an essential model for preclinical testing.

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2025

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