STAT3 and ovarian carcinoma: In a previously published study using epithelial ovarian cancer cell lines, we investigated the effect of SHLA and Lan2 on the JAK/Stat3, MAPK/ERK and PI3K/Akt pathways and showed an inhibitory effect of SHLA on all tested signalling proteins in OVCAR-3 cells and of Lan2 on Stat3 and ERK1/2 proteins in CaOV-3 cells [14].