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Certain specific antigens, which behave as oncoproteins, are present in normal foetal/neonatal developing brain: among them, growth factors, especially insulin-like growth factor type I (IGFI).When IGF-I reappears in the mature brain, this growth factor is over expressed in neoplastic glia, participating in the development of a brain malignant tumour, glioblastoma multiforme.