[Mechanism of lung and intestine combination therapy in treatment of acute lung injury by inhibiting inflammatory response based on NF-κB/NLRP3 signaling pathway and alveolar macrophage activation].

Lung and intestine combination therapy(LICT) is effective in the treatment of acute lung injury(ALI). In this study, the combination of Mahuang Decoction and Dachengqi Decoction(hereinafter referred to as the combination), a manifestation of LICT, was employed to explore the effect of nuclear factor kappaB(NF-κB)/nucleotide binding oligomerization domain-like receptors-3(NLRP3) pathway and alveolar macrophage activation on the lung inflammation in rats with ALI, for the purpose of elucidating the mechanism of LICT in treating ALI. After the modeling of ALI with limpolysaccharide(LPS, ip), rats were respectively given(ig) the combination at 10, 7.

[Protective Effect of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Against Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia-induced Pulmonary Oxidative Stress Injury in Rats].

Objective: To determine changes of angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in the development of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH)-induced pulmonary injury in rats and its mechanism.

Methods: 96 adult male Wistar rats were randomly allocated into four groups: control (UC) group, chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) group, normal saline treated CIH (NS) group, and edaravone treated CIH (NE) group. Each group contained four subgroups of rats (n = 6) subjecting to 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and 4 weeks experiment, respectively.