Article
LRRC8A regulates hypotonicity-induced NLRP3 inflammasome activation
2020-06-12
Abstract excerpt
The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multi-molecular protein complex that converts inactive cytokine precursors into active forms of IL-1β and IL-18. The NLRP3 inflammasome is frequently associated with the damaging inflammation of non-communicable disease states and is considered a therapeutic target. However, there is much regarding the mechanism of NLRP3 activation that remains unknown. Chloride efflux is suggested as a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c0bfa7d5-091e-54ea-9768-b333d3dfa7c4
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.11.146225
