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. 2017 Mar 21;12(3):e0173916. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173916

Fig 4. Indices of lung edema.

Fig 4

A. Weight gain of the heart-lung blocks expressed in grams, represents the difference between weight of the heart-lung blocks measured before and at the end of EVLP. B. The concentration of proteins in the BAL fluid (in mg.ml-1 BAL fluid) was measured as an index of high permeability edema. BASE: BAL fluid and was obtained from normal rats sacrificed without any intervention (Normal, baseline values, N = 3); CTRL: Ischemia followed by EVLP with Steen® solution alone (N = 6); PDTC: Ischemia followed by EVLP with PDTC treatment (N = 6). Means ± s.e.m.* p<0.05 (Heart-lung block weight gain: unpaired t test; Proteins in BAL fluid: ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test).