From: Meningioma animal models: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Grade | Type of animal | Age (w) | Number of cells/injection volume (μl) | Duration of incubation (d) | Tumor take rate % (pooled animals) | IVoG | NIVoG | Papers |
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Orthotopic models | ||||||||
 Benign/WHO-Grade 1 | CC 21 [24], 42 [24], 56 [24], 90 [26, 119] NA [25] | 100% (34/34) [119], 93% (27/29) [26], 69% (56/81) [24], 0% (0/30) [25] | – | |||||
 Atypical/WHO-Grade 2 | CC 14 [24], 21 [24], 28 [24], 360 [25] SS (240) [25] | MRI [25] | a [25] | |||||
 Malignant/WHO-grade 3 | (102) [121], (103) [121], (104) [121], (105) [25, 121], (106) [24, 121] / | CC 4 [24], 8 [24], 12 [24], 360 [25] SS (160) [25] ND [121] | 100% (12/12) [121], 90% (9/10) [25], 86% (6/7) [121], 67% (4/6) [121], 25% (1/4) [25] | Histology [24, 25, 121], IHC [24, 25, 121], RNA sequence [25] | MRI [25] | a [25] | ||
 Unknown/uncertain | Nu/nu [116] | 6 [116] | CC (90) [116] | 90% (18/20) [116] | – | MRI [116] | 1 [116] | |
Heterotopic models | ||||||||
 Benign/WHO-grade 1 | CD1 [20, 72, 73], nude [120], C57B1/6 J-nu [122], CD1 athymic BALB/c [123], Swiss nu/nu/Ncr [124], BALB/c-nu [106, 126, 128] | 2 [123], 3 [20, 72, 73], 4 [126], 6 [106], 8–10 [124], ND [120, 122, 128] | (105) [20], (106) [73, 123], (1.5 × 106) [124], (1.7 × 106) [20], (5 × 106) [72], (107) [120, 122], (1.1 × 107) [20], (1.6 × 107) [20], (5 × 107) [126]/(10) [126], (100–150) [72], (500) [20, 123], (800)[124], WT[106, 122, 128], SR[106, 126], IV-ND[106, 120, 122] | CC 28 [126], 35 [20], 43 [72], 51 [20], 56 [106, 124], 84[120], 90 [128], 96 [20], 150 [73, 123], 180 [122], 270 [122], 330 [122] | 100% (199/199) [72, 106, 123, 124, 126, 128], 85% (17/20) [120], 76% (35/46) [122], 75% (15/20) [20], ND [73] | Histology [20, 72, 73, 122, 123, 126] IHC [20, 72, 73, 120, 122, 123] Measured surgicals [106] | ||
 Atypical/WHO-Grade 2 | 100% (8/8) [124] 33% (4/12) [122] | Histology [122] IHC [122] | ||||||
 Malignant/WHO-Grade 3 | (104) [121], (105) [121], (106) [118, 121], (1.5 × 106) [124], (2 × 106) [129]/(1000) [121], (250) [118], WT [106], SR [106, 129], IV-ND [129] | 100% (43/43) [106, 118, 124], 67% (4/6) [121], 60% (3/5) [121], 50% (3/6) [121], ND [129] | ||||||
 Unknown/uncertain | (5 × 106–107) [127], WT [117, 125, 127], SR [117, 127], SG [125] | ND [127] | Electron microscopy [125] | Caliper-PM [117] | a[127] |