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. 2020 Jul 7;11:3384. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17153-0

Fig. 7. Reduced tissue damage and attenuated hyperinflammation in severe sepsis.

Fig. 7

a Tissue histology (n = 2) stained with hematoxylin and eosin for major organs of septic mice with the most severe hypothermia at 24 h post CLP in different groups. Histopathological findings: Lung: alveolar congestion (black circle), hemorrhage (blue circle), alveolar thickening, and hyaline membrane formation (arrow); Heart: intracellular edema and contraction bands (arrow), indicating early cell death; Liver: predominantly macrovascular steatosis (blue arrow) and nuclear inclusion (black arrow); Kidney: proximal tubular edema and vacuolization (blue arrow), luminal epithelial desquamation (black arrow), and epithelial nuclear enlargement (circle); Intestine: villous shortening, villous edema, villous necrosis (blue arrow), and loss of goblet cells (green arrow). b The heatmap of multiple inflammatory cytokine profiles, and c quantitative analysis of key cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1β, and MCP-1) in both plasma and peritoneal lavage fluids in mice at 24 h post CLP in different treatment groups in comparison with sham mice (n = 4, mean ± SEM. Statistical significance was measured by unpaired one-sided Student’s test). Source data are available in the Source Data file.