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Immunostaining of Lung Tissue

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Mice were sacrificed with CO2 exposure, and prior to harvest, the lungs were inflated with 4% PFA at a constant pressure of 25 cm H2O. The lungs were fixed in 4% PFA overnight at 4°. The lung tissue was then dehydrated by immersing it in a series of ethanol solutions of increasing concentrations and embedded in paraffin for sectioning. Six-micrometer sections were immunostained with antibodies for VEGFR3 (R&D Systems, AF743) and VCAM (Abcam, ab134047). Human lung tissue was stained with antibodies for podoplanin (D240, BioLegend, 75782-960) and VCAM (Abcam, ab134047) overnight at 4°. After washing, the slides were incubated with Alexa Fluor-conjugated secondary antibodies for 1 h at room temperature. Slides were treated with DAPI-containing Vectashield that was used on the tissue sections, and a cover slip was applied. Secondary antibodies alone were used on the negative control slides to check for autofluorescence of lung tissue. Immunofluorescence was performed either using a Nikon Eclipse microscope and NIS Elements software or a Zeiss SP8 confocal microscope and Leica software. Image analysis was performed using ImageJ.
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Immunohistochemical Quantification of Key Vascular and Oxidative Markers

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Antibodies against alpha smooth muscle actin (SMA, rabbit IgG, ab5694), MMP8 (rabbit IgG, ab53017), CD68 (rabbit IgG, ab125212), VCAM1 (rabbit IgG, ab134047), 8-Hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG, mouse IgG, ab48508), and VCAM1 (rabbit IgG, ab134047) were purchased from Abcam, Cambridge, UK. Antibody against Angiotensin I (mouse IgG, sc-74528) was from Insight Biotechnology, UK. Antibody against Angiotensin II (rabbit IgG, ABIN6993662) was from Antibodies-online, Germany. Antibody against Ly6G (Rat IgG, 127602) was from Biolegend, London, UK. Monoclonal anti-α smooth muscle actin (SMA) (Clone 1A4, mouse IgG, A5228) was from Merck, Dorset, UK. All secondary antibodies and other materials were from ThermoFisher Scientific, Cheshire, UK, unless specifically indicated.
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Multicolor Immunofluorescence of FFPE Tissues

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Multicolor immunofluorescence analyses were performed using 3-μm-thick sections of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues. Briefly, slides were deparaffinized in xylene and hydrated in a series of decreasing graded ethanol series. After heat-induced antigen retrieval in citrate buffer (pH = 6), samples were permeabilized with 0.5% Triton X-100, blocked with 5% goat serum-phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), and sequentially co-stained with antibodies recognizing VCAM-1 (Abcam, ab134047), CD248 (Abcam, ab217535), 4-HNE (Abcam, ab46545), FAPα (Invitrogen, BMS168; Abcam, ab218164), Mfap4 (Thermo, PA5-24865), Sparcl1 (Santa Cruz, sc-514275), F4/80 (Cell Signaling Technology, #70076), rabbit IgG Isotype Control (Invitrogen, 31235), mouse IgG Isotype Control (Invitrogen, 14-4714-82), and DAPI. A TSA indirect kit (PerkinElmer) was used according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Vectra® Polaris™ Imaging System (Akoya Biosciences) was used to collect images, and image analysis was performed using HALO Image Analysis Software.
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Western Blot Analysis of Aortic Proteins

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Protein levels of genes in the aorta were detected by Western blotting analysis. In brief, aortic tissue lysates were separated by 10% SDS-PAGE and transferred to 0.45 μm PVDF membranes (IPVH00010, Merck Millipore). After blocking in 5% skim milk (Cat#D8340, Solarbio; for non-phosphorylated protein) or 5% BSA (G5001-5G, Servicebio; for phosphorylated protein) for 2 h, the membranes were incubated overnight at 4°C with primary antibodies: p65NF-κB (1:1000, AF5006, Affinity Biosciences); p-p65NF-κB (1:1000, AB76302, Abcam); p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38MAPK; 1:2500, ab170099, Abcam); p-p38MAPK (1:1000, AB195049, Abcam); VCAM-1 (1:5000, ab134047, Abcam); and β-actin (1:1000, GB15003, Servicebio). The membranes were then incubated with HRP-conjugated secondary antibody for 90 min at room temperature. Protein bands were visualized using ECL solution on Ultra Sensitive Multifunctional Imager (AI680RGB, GE, Japan) and analyzed using the ImageJ software.
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Western Blot Analysis of Adenosine Receptors

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Tissues were homogenized using TissueLyser II (Qiagen) according to manufacturer’ instructions. Proteins were isolated using RIPA buffer (Boston BioProdcuts, BP-115) with protease inhibitor and phosphatase inhibitors. Protein concentrations were determined using Pierce BCA assay (Thermo Scientific). Twenty μg protein were loaded per lane on a 4–20% Mini-PROTEAN TGX Gel (Bio-Rad, 456–1096). Separated proteins were transferred to PVDF membranes using the Transfer Turbo Blot system (Bio-Rad) and Trans-Blot Turbo RTA Transfer Kit (Bio-Rad, 170–4272). The membrane was blocked with 5% nonfat milk in TBST for 1 hr at room temperature. After blocking, the membrane was incubated overnight at 4°C with antibodies against ADORA1 (1:500, ab82477, abcam), ADORA2A (1:750, ab3461, abcam), ADORA2B (1:750, ab40002, abcam), ADORA3 (1:500, ab203298, abcam), VCAM-1 (1:1000, ab134047, abcam), ICAM-1 (1:3000, BBA3, R and D Systems), E-Selectin (1:1000, BBA16, R and D Systems), p-AKT (1:1000, 4060, Cell Signaling), T-AKT (1:1000, 2920, Cell Signaling), β-actin (1:4000, 4970, Cell Signaling). Quantification of protein bands were performed using a luminescent image analyzer (BioRad, Chemidoc).
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Multiparameter Immunophenotyping of Cells

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CD4-VioGreen (130-106-655, Miltenyi Biotec), Anti-CCR10-PE (clone: REA326, 130-104-822, Miltenyi Biotec), CD183 (CXCR3)-PE-Vio770 (clone: REA326, 130-104-822, Miltenyi Biotec), CD194 (CCR4)-APC (clone: REA279, 130-103-813, Miltenyi Biotec), CD196 (CCR6)- PE-Vivo-615 (clone: REA190, 130-107-142, Miltenyi Biotec), Propidium iodide (130-093-233, Miltenyi Biotec), NESTIN rabbit-anti-mouse (ab7659, Abcam), SCA1 rat-anti-mouse (ab25195, Abcam), PDGFRα goat-anti-mouse (AF1062, R&D Systems), Alexa Flour 405 donkey-anti-Rabbit (ab175651, Abcam), Alexa Flour 488 donkey-anti-goat (A-11055, Thermo Fisher Scientific), Alexa Flour 594 donkey-anti-rat (A-21209, Thermo Fisher Scientific), PerCP-CyTM 5.5 CD45.2 conjugated mouse-anti-mouse (552950, BD Biosciences), ICAM1 rabbit-anti-human (ab53013, Abcam), VCAM1 rabbit-anti-human (ab134047, Abcam), IL-1β rabbit-anti-human (ab2105, Abcam), TNF-α rabbit-anti-human (ab9635, Abcam), actin rabbit-anti-human (A2066, Sigma-Aldrich), rabbit anti goat (81–1620, Invitrogen), goat anti rabbit (65–6120,Invitrogen), CD3 rabbit-anti mouse (AD452, Dako), and B220 rat-anti-mouse (MAB1217, R&D Systems).
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Protein Extraction and Western Blot Analysis

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Total protein was extracted from HUVECs and kidney tissues using radioimmunoprecipitation assay lysis buffer (P0013B; Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, Shanghai, China) containing phosphatase inhibitor cocktail (P1045; Beyotime), and protein concentrations were determined using BCA Protein Assay Kit (P0010; Beyotime). Protein extracts were separated by 10% sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and then electrophoretically transferred onto nitrocellulose membranes (Pall Corporation, Cortland, NY, USA) at 100 V for 90 min. After blocking with 5% nonfat milk, membranes were incubated with anti-PI3Kγ (5405, 1:1,000; Cell Signaling Technology), pAkt (4060, 1:2,000, Cell Signaling Technology), Akt (4691, 1:1,000; Cell Signaling Technology), VCAM-1 (ab134047, 1:2,000; Abcam), and ICAM-1 (ab179707, 1:1,000; Abcam). Target proteins were examined using an electrochemiluminescence system (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and visualized using X-ray films (Carestream, Xiamen, China). β-Actin was used as a control. The results were measured using ImageJ [26 (link)] (version 1.52; National Institutes of Health).
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Therapeutic Inhibitors Targeting Inflammation

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KCa3.1 inhibitor TRAM-34, NF-κB inhibitor PDTC and STAT3 inhibitor AG490 were purchased from MCE (Shanghai, China). All these inhibitors dissolved in DMSO (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA). Antibodies against KCa3.1 (60276-1-Ig) and Interleukin (IL)-1β (16806-1-AP) were purchased from Proteintech (Wuhan, China). Antibodies for inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) (ab178945), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 (ab228402), vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1 (ab134047), STAT3 (ab68153), phospho (p)-STAT3 (ab76315), horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated IgG (ab205718, ab205719) were purchased from Abcam (Cambridge, MA, USA). Antibodies against β-tubulin (15115S), NF-κB p65 (8242T), p-NF-κB p65 (3033T), p38 MAPK (8690T) and p-p38 MAPK (4511T) were purchased from CST (Danvers, MA, USA). Antibodies for glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) (BL006B) and β-actin (BL005B) were purchased from Biosharp (Hefei, China). Primary antibody for Histone H3 (EM30605) was purchased from HUABIO (Hangzhou, China)
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Immunohistochemical Analysis of Liver Inflammation

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The liver specimens were embedded in paraffin and sectioned into 4-μm thick tissue slices. All sections were first stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) for morphological structure analysis. For immunohistochemical staining (IHC), after antigen retrieval and endogenous peroxidase blocking, the sections were incubated with primary antibodies against TLR4 (1/100, 19811-1-AP, Proteintech, Wuhan, China), p-NF-κB p65 (1/50, ab194726, Abcam), IL-6 (use concentration of 1 μg/ml, ab9324, Abcam), and VCAM-1 (1/500, ab134047, Abcam) at 4 °C overnight and then incubated with secondary antibodies at room temperature for 2 h. Freshly prepared 3,3′-diaminobenzidine solution (Boster) was used for coloration. Next, the sections were counterstained with hematoxylin. The brown color indicated positive staining.
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Western Blot Analysis of HPMEC Lysates

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Whole cell lysate was prepared from cultured HPMECs using 1× sample buffer (0.5 M Tris-HCL pH 6.8, 10% (w/v) SDS, 6% β-mercaptoethanol, 10% glycerol, 100 mM dithiothreitol, 0.1% bromophenol blue). Homogenates were centrifuged at 12000 rpm at 4°C for 2 min and then sonicated for 10 s (30 amplitude). Homogenates were then spun down again and boiled for 3 min before storing at −20°C until gel loading. Following separation by SDS–PAGE, proteins were transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane and assessed by Western blotting with primary antibodies against Poldip2 (ab181841; Abcam), VCAM-1 (ab134047; Abcam), β-actin (A5441; Sigma), or GAPDH (mab374; Millipore). Blots were incubated with horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated secondary antibodies depending on the species of the primary antibody (anti-mouse [NA931; GE] and anti-rabbit [70745; Cell Signaling]) and assessed using enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL, GE). HRP-induced luminescence was detected with Amersham Hyperfilm ECL (GE). Detected bands were scanned and densitometry was performed using ImageJ.
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