PLUNC inhibits invasion and metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation

Affiliations

• 1 Department of Medical Laboratory Science, the Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, Guizhou, China; Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Xiangya Medical College, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• 2 Department of Medical Laboratory Science, the Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Xiangya Medical College, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• 3 Clinical Laboratory, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
• 4 Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhengzhou Orthopaedics Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
• 5 Changsha Hospital for Maternal and Child Health Care, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• 6 Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Disease Genome Research Center, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• 7 Shenzhen Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital Clinical Laboratory, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
• 8 Department of Pathology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• 9 Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• 10 NHC Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis, Hunan Cancer Hospital and the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; The Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Cancer Research Institute and School of Basic Medicine Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
• 11 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taiwan; Research Center for Cancer Biology, China Medical University, Taiwan.
• 12 Department of Medical Laboratory Science, the Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Xiangya Medical College, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China. Electronic address: zhangwenling73@126.com.