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. 2018 Feb 28;8:3797. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22218-8

Figure 2.

Figure 2

iRhom2 deficiency ameliorates lung injury after intestinal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R). (A) Representative histological sections of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained lung tissues from wild-type (WT) mice and iRhom2 knockout (KO) mice are shown (x200). Scale bars: 100 μm. The iRhom2 KO and WT mice were randomized into an intestinal I/R group (each n = 10) and a sham laparotomy group (each n = 5) as follows: KO SH (sham-operated KO group), WT SH (sham-operated WT group), KO I/R (KO with intestinal I/R group), and WT I/R (WT with intestinal I/R group). Lung injury following intestinal I/R was significantly attenuated in the iRhom2 KO mice compared with the WT mice. (B) Lung injury was assessed by using a modified scoring system with three criteria: alveolar edema/exudates, hemorrhage and interstitial/alveolar cellular infiltration. *P < 0.05 versus the WT I/R group.