Fig 5. Lung morphology after lung procurement.

Lungs were procured from either healthy rats (experimental group 1) or rats subjected to 3 hours of brain death (BD, experimental group 2). Histological lung injury was scored after staining for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E). (A) Quantification of lung injury scores in H&E-stained lung slides. (B-C) Representative H&E-stained slices of healthy donor lungs and lungs from brain-dead donors. ** p<0.01 in healthy donor lungs versus lungs from brain-dead donors.