“…Nevertheless, in nonneoplastic skin pathologies, several investigators have reported S100A7 induction in response to inflammatory cytokines, including OSM, IL-1, IL-17, IL-20 and IL-22 (Boniface et al, 2005;Gazel et al, 2006;Liang et al, 2006;Wolk et al, 2006;Bando et al, 2007;Boniface et al, 2007;Sa et al, 2007). Each of these cytokines has the capacity to signal, either directly or indirectly, through STAT3, ERK1/2 and PI3K (Heinrich et al, 2003;Pestka et al, 2004;Gaffen, 2008;Perrier et al, 2008). We have shown previously that S100A7 in breast tumors correlates with Akt activation (Emberley et al, 2005) and now show that OSM and IL-6 can induce S100A7 via PI3K, ERK1/2 or STAT3.…”