Following the manufacturer’s instructions, alveolar macrophage pyroptosis was detected by the FAM-FLICA Caspase-1 Detection Kit (Immunochemistry Technologies, Minnesota, USA). The cells were gently collected and cocultured with the caspase-1 fluorescent probe in the dark at 37 ℃ for 1 h. Washing with 1X apoptosis wash buffer for removing from unbound FLICA in cells. Then, the nucleus was counterstained with Hoechst 33,342 and PI sequentially. The morphology of pyroptotic AM was identified by microscopy and analyzed with ZEN 3.1 software (Carl Zeiss).