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We previously demonstrated that acidic bile activates NF‐κB, deregulating the expression of oncogenic miRNA markers, in pre‐malignant murine laryngopharyngeal mucosa. Here, we hypothesize that the in vitro exposure of human hypopharyngeal cells to acidic bile deregulates cancer‐related miRNA markers that can be reversed by BAY 11‐7082, a pharmacologic NF‐κB inhibitor. We repetitively exposed normal human hypopharyngeal primary cells and human hypopharyngeal keratinocytes to bile fluid (400 μmol/L), at pH 4.0 and 7.0, with/without BAY 11‐7082 (20 μmol/L). We centred our study on the transcriptional activation of oncogenic miR‐21, miR‐155, miR‐192, miR‐34a, miR‐375, miR‐451a and NF‐κB‐related genes, previously linked to acidic bile‐induced pre‐neoplastic events. Our novel findings in vitro are consistent with our hypothesis demonstrating that BAY 11‐7082 significantly reverses the …