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. 2019 Jul 1;9:9488. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45892-8

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Stage transition graph (STG) of the development of distinct sub-types of GBM. The Red and blue nodes represent the initial and transient cellular states of the general glioma developmental model. It shows that starting from a group of common tumor-initiating cells (red colored nodes), the tumorigenic developmental process leads towards distinct grades (sub-types) and heterogeneity in the GBM tumor cells. ASPC and ASPC/GSC refer the cyclic attractor states “ASPC Differentiation or LGG-I” and “GSC Renewal/ASPC Differentiation or LGG-II” respectively, whereas GBM refers the cellular state corresponding to “GSC Renewal/ASPC Differentiation/GBM Development or Grade-IV” cellular state.