The early responses of VEGF and its receptors during acute lung injury: implication of VEGF in alveolar epithelial cell survival

Table 1 Survival, physiological and lung injury parameters.

	N	Control	Sham	IIR
Survival (percent)	24	NA	100	50^a
Blood pressure after 4 h (mmHg)	4	NA	51.0 ± 6.1	32.5 ± 10.3^a
BAL protein concentration (μg/ml)	12	46.1 ± 30.7	149.2 ± 72.0^b	174.4 ± 82.2^c
BAL total cell count (× 10⁵/ml)	12	6.8 ± 3.2	11.4 ± 2.1^b	16.8 ± 7.2^{a, c}
BAL neutrophils (percent)	8	4.8 ± 3.6	4.6 ± 3.9	18.5 ± 13.0^d
EBD permeability assay	4	0.021 ± 0.00	0.024 ± 0.01	0.038 ± 0.00^d
Compliance percentage of decrease from baseline)	8	NA	0.2 ± 0.0	18.8 ± 8.8^a

^ap < 0.05 versus sham; ^bp < 0.05 and ^cp < 0.01 versus control; ^dp < 0.05 versus other groups. BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; EBD, Evans Blue Dye; IIR, intestinal ischemia-reperfusion; NA, not applicable.

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