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Figure 3

From: Inhibition of pulmonary nuclear factor kappa-B decreases the severity of acute Escherichia coli pneumonia but worsens prolonged pneumonia

Figure 3

IκBα modulated structural lung injury induced by acute pneumonia. Overexpression of IκBα attenuated the decrement in alveolar airspace and the increase in alveolar tissue (A) after pneumonia-induced lung injury. (B) Image from a pneumonia-injured lung that received intratracheal vehicle, demonstrating increased wall thickness and inflammatory cell infiltrate. (C through E) Images from pneumonia-injured lungs that received increasing doses of intratracheal vector encoding the IκBα transgene. The animals that received the intermediate (5 × 1010) dose demonstrated reduced injury and inflammatory cell infiltration. Vehicle, animals that received intratracheal vehicle alone; IκBα 5 × 109, animals that received 5 × 109 AAV6 particles encoding IκBα; IκBα 1 × 1010, animals that received 1 × 1010 AAV6 particles encoding IκBα; IκBα 5 × 1010, animals that received 5 × 1010 AAV6 particles encoding IκBα. Significantly different from vehicle group (P < 0.05, ANOVA). S cale bar, 200 μm.

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