“…These discrepancies may be due to species variations, distinct intracellular machinery or differences in the protocol used to investigate a specific function in a same cell type (Faria et al, 2010). Other proteins have presented less divergent responses, such as: PKC (DonnellyRoberts et al, 2004;Faria et al, 2010;Shemon et al, 2004), Ca2+-insensitive Phospholipase A PLA (Chaib et al, 2000), caspase-1 and-3 (Donnelly- Roberts et al, 2004;Faria et al, 2010), PLD (Stunff & Raymond, 2007), phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP 2 ) (Zhao et al, 2007), cytoskeleton components (Marques-da-Silva et al, 2011), PI3K (Faria et al, 2010), src tyrosine phosphorylation (Iglesias et al, 2008), Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR gamma) (Nagasawa et al, 2009a) antagonists and intracellular Ca 2+ chelants (Faria et al, 2005(Faria et al, , 2010). …”