While it may decrease Glut4 expression, IL-6 nevertheless promotes glucose consumption in mouse adipocytes (Ji et al., 2011; Stouthard et al., 1996), as well as mouse macrophages (Kumari et al., 2020), rat myotubes (Carey et al., 2006), and both human skeletal muscle (Al-Khalili et al., 2006; Glund et al., 2007), and colorectal cancer cells (Han et al., 2016). The gene discussed is IL6; the disease is colorectal cancer.