In a similar way, IL6 plays an important role during embryo invasion and implantation in the uterus (Champion et al., 2012) and is involved in the control of infections by intracellular parasites, especially T. gondii (Barbosa et al., 2015; Gomes et al., 2018; de Melo Fernandes et al., 2023; Teixeira et al., 2023a). Here, IL6 is linked to infection.