However, Gal-8 has been described to share with Gal-1 and Gal-3 a predominant distribution towards the invasive parts of xenografted glioblastomas and, to a lesser extent, also shares the stimulation of glioblastoma cell migration when used as a matrix protein in a two dimensional in vitro assay [17]. This evidence concerns the gene LGALS1 and glioblastoma.