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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Radiol. 2020 Mar 12;27(12):1679–1690. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2019.12.022

TABLE 3.

Atelectatic and normally aerated lung mass as a fraction of total lung mass in early acute lung injury models

Controls Permissive Atelectasis Mild Endotoxemia Moderate Endotoxemia Surfactant Depletion All Injuries
Atelectatic Mass, % 6.5 ± 5.6 24.3 ± 13.7 31.5 ± 4.2 *** 13.0 ± 8.8 24.6 ± 18.6 * 18.7 ± 14.1 ***
Normally Aerated Mass, % 32.4 ± 7.9 17.8 ± 8.6 * 15.4 ± 1.6 ** 24.3 ± 6.6 22.4 ± 12.3 23.3 ± 0.0 ***

Variables are expressed as mean±SD.

*

P<0.05;

**

P<0.01;

***

P<0.001 (vs. control).