Open AccessBactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein Attenuates Systemic Inflammation and Acute Lung Injury in Porcine Lower Limb Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury
Author(s) -
Denis W. Harkin,
Aires A.B. Barros D’Sa,
K McCallion,
Margaret Hoper,
M. I. Halliday,
F. C. Campbell
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-200108000-00014
Subject(s) - medicine , sepsis , bronchoalveolar lavage , anesthesia , lung , edema , reperfusion injury , ischemia , gastroenterology , pharmacology , surgery
To investigate the role of recombinant bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (rBPI21) in the attenuation of the sepsis syndrome and acute lung injury associated with lower limb ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury.