Table 1.

Detailed information of the 20 glioma patients

Patient number	Sex	Age	Pathologic diagnosis	Tumor grade (WHO)	HIF-1α mRNA level*	BAG3 mRNA level*
1	Female	40	Astrocytoma	I	5.452	5.173
2	Male	19	Astrocytoma	I	2.701	4.441
3	Male	43	Astrocytoma	II	0.875	0.211
4	Female	24	Astrocytoma	II	5.103	3.629
5	Female	58	Astrocytoma	II	0.913	0.347
6	Female	58	Astrocytoma	II	5.184	4.405
7	Male	53	Astrocytoma	II	2.377	1.383
8	Male	58	Astrocytoma	II	7.120	5.041
9	Male	61	Astrocytoma	II	0.346	0.352
10	Male	73	Astrocytoma	II	2.511	3.704
11	Male	52	Glioblastoma	IV	1.000	1.000
12	Male	39	Glioblastoma	IV	1.646	3.106
13	Male	20	Glioblastoma	IV	1.384	1.901
14	Female	39	Glioblastoma	IV	0.485	1.049
15	Male	59	Glioblastoma	IV	2.379	3.619
16	Female	44	Glioblastoma	IV	1.957	2.210
17	Female	75	Glioblastoma	IV	1.161	0.262
18	Male	30	Glioblastoma	IV	10.966	7.867
19	Female	50	Glioblastoma	IV	1.292	0.661
20	Female	73	Glioblastoma	IV	3.760	2.682

^*HIF-1α and BAG3 mRNA expression levels were relative to β-actin.