NFKB1 and pulmonary fibrosis: In bleomycin (BLM)-induced pulmonary fibrosis mouse, p120 plays a vital role in regulating the process of pulmonary fibrosis via the SMAD and NF-κB pathways, and the absence of p120 can alleviate pulmonary fibrosis and lung fibroblast differentiation in mouse (Zhang et al., 2019).