Table 1.

Effects of EGCG on the assigned lung injury scores in seawater aspiration-induced ALI.

Group	Edema	Neutrophil infiltration	Hemorrhage	Bronchiole epithelial desquamation	Hyaline membrane
Control	0.2 ± 0.12	0.3 ± 0.15	0.1 ± 0.24	0.2 ± 0.27	0.0 ± 0.00
EGCG	0.3 ± 0.11	0.2 ± 0.14	0.2 ± 0.31	0.1 ± 0.29	0.0 ± 0.00
Seawater	3.5 ± 0.26*	3.6 ± 0.36*	2.9 ± 0.34*	3.2 ± 0.28*	0.3 ± 0.31
Seawater + EGCG	1.7 ± 0.33#	1.6 ± 0.29#	1.7 ± 0.27#	1.5 ± 0.31#	0.2 ± 0.28

Note: data are represented as mean ± SEM; *P < 0.05 versus control group; ^# P < 0.05 versus seawater group; n = 10.