NLRP3 and liver dysplastic nodule: In a recent study by Yi et al. to evaluate the role of lncRNAs in DN, long intergenic noncoding RNA (lincRNA)-Gm4419 was found to be involved in inflammation and fibrosis in mesangial cells exposed to high-glucose through the NFκB/NLRP3 inflammasome signaling pathway (Yi et al., 2017).