RELA and hepatocellular carcinoma: In this respect, our results resemble the data published by Lin et al. [9], who depicted that HNF1α overexpression in the human hepatoma cell line (Huh7 cells) leads to an increase in the RelA/p65 mRNA level, while the knockdown of HNF1α gene expression resulted in a significant decrease in RelA/p65 mRNA level.