NLRP3 and familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome: Dysregulated Nlrp3 inflammasome activation is associated with both heritable inflammatory diseases such as Muckle-Wells syndrome, familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome and neonatal onset multi-system inflammatory disease as well as acquired inflammatory diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, gout, pseudogout, obesity, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus and age-related macular degeneration47.