“…In this respect, IL-17 has been shown to directly induce VEGF in several malignant cell lines, including gastric ( Meng et al, 2012 ), breast ( Amara et al, 2016 ), and lung cancer ( Pan et al, 2015b ; Huang et al, 2016 ), as well as in tumor-associated neutrophils ( Benevides et al, 2015 ). IL-17 can also stimulate VEGF release by normal fibroblasts from the lung, skin, and cornea ( Numasaki et al, 2004 , 2016 ; Suryawanshi et al, 2012 ), by synoviocytes ( Honorati et al, 2006 ; Ryu et al, 2006 ), and chondrocyte-like cells from the nucleus pulposus ( Hu et al, 2016 ). Such an effect, however, does not seem to be a general phenomenon, as VEGF secretion was not detected in IL-17-stimulated dermal microvascular endothelial cells ( Takahashi et al, 2005 ) and in a number of cancer cell lines ( Wu et al, 2016 ).…”