Abstract:Objective;To investigate the pathogentic factor of severe acute pancreatitis(SAP)associated lung injury and the protective function of octreotide combined with alinastatin on SAPassociated lung injury in rats. Methods;Eighty SD rats were randomly divided into 5 groups. Sham operative (S)group, SAP group, octreotide(O)group, ulinastatin (U)group and octreotide + ulinastatin (O+U)group, and each group was divided into 6h,12h subgroups. After AP models were induced, the serum concentration of amylase(AMY),tumor necrosis factorα(TNFα), malondiadehyde (MDA), and the concentration of myeloperoxidase(MPO) in lung tissue were determined; and the pancreas and lung pathology were graded, the changes of the abovementioned indexes after using octreotide and ulinastatin were compared.Results;(1)Compared to SAP group , AMY, TNFα,MDA, MPO, and pancreas pathology score were decreased significantly in each of the 3 therapy groups during the same period;and at 12h, in O+U subgroup,lung pathology score also decreased compared to SAP group(P<0.05 ).(2)Compared to O group, in O+U group, MPO significantly decreased(P<0.05);and compared to U group, MDA also had significant decline(P<0.05 ).(3)TNFα significantly decrease in SAP group at 12h compared to 6h.(4)There was a positive correlation between AMY, TNFα,MDA,and MPO with pancreas and lung tissue pathology scores (r=0.343~0.781,P<0.01). Conclusions;(1)TNFα,MDA,and MPO are important pathogenetic factors for SAPassociated lung injury. (2)Octreotide and ulinastatin can decrease the degree of SAPassociated lung injury,and a better effect could resulte from combination of octreotide with ulinastatin.