Table 1

Expression rate of CDC2/CyclinB1 in 98 specimens

Specimens
Case
CDC2 expression (case)
Percentage of Positive cells (%)






Negative (-)
Weak Positive (+)
Positive (++)
Strong Positive (+++)


Normal adult brain tumor
11
9
2
0
0
18.2
Grade I
9
7
2
0
0
22.2
     Polycystic astrocytoma
7
6
1
0
0

     Choroid plexus papilloma
2
1
1
0
0

Grade II
25
15
8
2
0
40.0
     Fibrillary astrocytoma
16
11
4
1
0

     Protoplasmic astrocytoma
3
2
1
0
0

     Gemistocytic astrocytoma
1
0
1
0
0

     Oligodendroglioma
4
1
2
1
0

     Ependymoma
1
1
0
0
0

Grade III
23
7
8
5
3
69.6
     Anaplastic Astrocytoma
18
6
7
3
2

     Anaplastic oligodendroglioma
2
0
1
0
1

     Anaplastic ependymoma
3
1
0
2
0

Grade IV
14
3
3
4
4
78.6
     Glioblastoma
6
0
2
2
2

     Glioma sarcomatosum
1
0
0
1
0

     Medulloblastoma
6
2
1
1
2

     Primitive neuroectodermal tumor
1
1
0
0
0

Multicellular tumor spheres
8
1
0
3
4
87.5
Brain tumor stem cell spheres
4
4
0
0
0
0.0
Neural stem cell spheres
4
4
0
0
0
0.0

Chen et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:29   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-29