This study was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30571784).Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to JIN Di and GUO Yue-ping for their support and technical assistance, and professor Tsutomu Kobayashi for reviewing the manuscript.
Background Successful lung transplantation has been limited by the scarcity of donors. Brain death (BD) donors are major source of lung transplantation. Whereas BD process induces acute lung injury and aggravates lu...