Take the upper lobe of the left lung cryopreserved at −80 °C, total RNA was extracted by Trizol (BIO TNT) according to the manufacturer’s instruction, then the total RNA was reverse transcripted into the first strand of cDNA (PrimeScriptTMRT Master Mix (Perfect Real Time) Takara BIO INC) according to the instruction, the concentration and A260/280 of cDNA were checked to judge the purity of the sample extract. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) experiment (TB Green® Premix Ex TaqTM II (Tli RNaseH Plus) Takara BIO INC) was performed to detect the expression level of IL-33, ST2, IL-4, IL-13, IL-5, TNF-a, IFN-γ (primer sequences are presented in Table 1), and the results were analyzed as previously reported (Wei et al. 2016 (link)).