Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 924565, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/924565
Methodology Report

Gene Expression Analysis of an EGFR Indirectly Related Pathway Identified PTEN and MMP9 as Reliable Diagnostic Markers for Human Glial Tumor Specimens

1Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy
2Dipartimento di Farmacologia Sperimentale ed Applicata, Università di Pavia, Viale Taramelli 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Received 9 February 2009; Revised 23 April 2009; Accepted 18 May 2009

Academic Editor: Zhumur Ghosh

Copyright © 2009 Sergio Comincini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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