NFKBIA and colitis: In DSS-induced experimental mice colitis, it suggests that Zanthoxylum bungeanum pericarp extract (ZBE) (0.5, 1, 2 g/kg) treatment alleviates body weight loss, colon length shortening and colonic pathological damage, whose mechanisms are related to inhibiting NF-κBp65 and IκBα phosphorylation levels in a dose dependent manner and LPS-induced J774.1 cells.