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NF-κB is 25

Nature Immunology volume 12, pages 683–685 (2011)Cite this article

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NF-κB-mediated inflammatory biology can be formulated as the following five states: latency, induction, response, resolution and pathology. The first four involve carefully tuned molecular processes; pathology is the loss of control.

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Baltimore, D. NF-κB is 25. Nat Immunol 12, 683–685 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2072

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