It is worth mentioning that in different animal models of induced ALI, the expression of the Nfkb1 gene and the NF-κB p50 protein were upregulated in the injured lung tissues compared to their corresponding controls (Fei et al., 2019; Dong et al., 2020; Mitchell et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2022). Here, NFKB1 is linked to acute respiratory distress syndrome.