IL6 and ovarian cancer: Pernilla Israelsson et al. evaluated the relative mRNA expression and the corresponding protein expression of the cytokines IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α and TNF-β/LTA at seven consecutive time points in the kinetic experiments with ovarian cancer cell lines OVCAR-3 and SKOV-3 and compared with T cell line Jurkat, which served as a control [41].