“…PAR2 has been proposed to be important in inflammation (Niu et al ., 2008; Shin et al ., 2009) and proliferation (Nishibori et al ., 2005; Arisawa et al ., 2007; Matej et al ., 2007; Iwaki et al ., 2008). Based mainly on the properties of these exogenous peptide agonists, together with some knockout mouse studies, activation of PAR2 has been purported to be pro‐inflammatory in arthritis (Ferrell et al ., 2003; Kelso et al ., 2007; Lam, 2007; McIntosh et al ., 2007), pancreatitis (Maeda et al ., 2005; Hirota et al ., 2006), gastric (Hansen et al ., 2005; Cottrell et al ., 2007; Kawabata et al ., 2008) and kidney (Moussa et al ., 2007; Vesey et al ., 2007a,b) cells, but anti‐inflammatory in airways inflammation (Cocks et al ., 1999; D'Agostino et al ., 2007). Increased expression of PAR2 associated with proliferation has been consistently found in many types of cancer cells, with reports on PAR2‐induced cancer progression in breast (Matej et al ., 2007), colon (Nishibori et al ., 2005), gastric (Arisawa et al ., 2007) and pancreatic cancers (Iwaki et al ., 2008).…”