NFKBIA and acute respiratory distress syndrome: As illustrated in Fig. 8A–E, Western blot results indicated that the relative expressions of p65, p-p65, IκBα, and p-IκBα were dramatically elevated compared with that of loading control α-Tubulin following the exposure to LPS alone in the lung tissues of ALI mice, whereas prominently reversed by pretreatment with QFAE.