To test if SOCS3 protein is induced by IL-6 (with or without infection), we pretreated (or not) LNCaP-JAK1 cells with IL-6 (5 ng/mL, 12 h) and subsequently infected or not these cells with EHDV-TAU (moi = 0.5, 48 h). This evidence concerns the gene JAK1 and infection.