NFKB1 and stroke disorder: In line with the literature from peripheral endothelial cells (e.g., Kempe et al. 2005; Pan et al. 2016; Zhou et al. 2017), our transcriptomic analysis identified a consistent upregulation of the TNF (via NF‐κB) signaling pathway in the cerebral endothelial cells from an acute model of stroke and LPS stimulation from 15min to 24 h.