NFKB1 and neoplasm: Moreover, the combined use of embelin (XIAP inhibitor) and celastrol (NF-kβ inhibitor) in acute myeloid leukemia (HL-60) cell line has been shown to produce synergistic and additive effects by downregulating COX-2 and survivin, which shows that simultaneous inhibition of the two tumor signaling pathways can improve the effectiveness of the chemotherapy [91].