NLRP3 and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: Interestingly, a recent paper by Díaz-García et al. [31] and the comment on this article by Borker and Patel [32] refer to the mechanism that links OSA with the regulation of the systemic inflammatory response, the activation of the inflammasome, in particular the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor 3 (NLRP3).