Efficacy of Intratracheal Budesonide-Surfactant Combined Therapy in Surfactant-Insufficient Rat Lungs with Lipopolysaccharide Insult
Pei-Chen Tsao, MD, MS,1,2,3,6 Chih-Hsueh Lin, PhD,2,4 Yu-Sheng Lee, MD, PhD,1,3,6Wei-Yu Chen, MD, MS,1,3,5,6 Mei-Jy Jeng, MD, PhD,1,3,5,6* Yu Ru Kou, PhD,2,5,6*
1 Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
2 Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
3 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
4 Department of Nutrition, Master Program of BioMedical Nutrition, HungKuang University, Taichung, Taiwan.
5 Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
6 School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Running head: Budesonide-surfactant combined therapy in acute lung injury
Yu Ru Kou and Mei-Jy Jeng contributed equally.