NFKB1 and Sepsis: Due to the known similarities between ischaemic and sepsis preconditioning, and the important roles that stress kinases and NF-κB activation are known to play in the signaling of ischaemic preconditioning [31,32], we utilised blockers of the stress kinases, and ammonium PDTC, a direct inhibitor of the NF-κB pathway, to further examine potential signaling pathways involved in sepsis preconditioning.