Table 2.

Interleukin (IL)-23-producing human tumor cell lines

Human tumor cell lines	IL-23 detection method	References
Human lung carcinoma cell lines A549 (adenocarcinoma) SK-MES-1 (squamous-cell carcinoma) H1299, H460, and H647 (large-cell carcinoma) BEAS2B (SV40 transformed normal bronchoepithelia) HBEC3, HBEC4, and HBEC5 (normal bronchial epithelial cell lines immortalized in the absence of viral oncoproteins)	RT-PCR	Baird et al. 2013
Human oral squamous cell carcinoma HSC-2, HSC-3, HSC-4, and Ca9-22	qPCR	Fukuda et al. 2010a,b
Human hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2, PLC8024, QGY7703, H2P, H2M, Huh7, and MHCC-97L	WB	Li et al. 2012
Human pancreatic carcinoma cell line PANC-1	qPCR, cytokine array	Chang et al. 2015

RT-PCR, Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; qPCR, real-time polymerase chain reaction; WB, Western blot.