Another evidentiary data that Ang2 plays a stage dependent role in glioma angiogenesis is the fact that tumor vascular structures observed in our xenograft models are not evident in human GBM specimens, indicating that Ang2 is not upregulated throughout all stages of human GBMs, and most likely plays a very precise role at specific stages of GBM growth. This evidence concerns the gene ANGPT2 and glioma.