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. 2017 Aug 19;9(5):761–773. doi: 10.1007/s12551-017-0293-3

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Theories on the origin of glioblastomas. The first theory (a) suggests that glioblastomas are derived from mature glial cells that undergo mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, leading to cell dedifferentiation and tumor development. The second theory (b) suggests that these tumors originate from progenitor cells that undergo transformation events during development