Abstract:Objective: To study the protective effect of soybean protease inhibitor on LPS-induced lung injury in rats. Method: Fivty male SD rats were randomly devided in five groups, 10 rats in each group as sham-operation group, model control group, positive medicine group, and high, moderate SBTI groups. Except the sham-group, other groups were induced by intratracheal instillation of LPS with a dose of 6 mg·kg-1. All rats were given drug throught intraperitoneal injection except the model controlled group, the positive medicine group was given PMSF with a dose of 50 mg·kg-1, the high dose group of SBTI was given SBTI with a dose of 100 mg·kg-1, a dose of the moderate group is 50 mg·kg-1. We examed all rats in seven days. Index exam: cell quantity, activity of neutrophilic granulocyte released elastic protease proteins in BALF, histopathological examination and so on. Result: Soybean protease inhibitor can level down the level of total protein, cell quantity, PMN percent, activity of neutrophilic granulocyte in BALF. SBTI level down the content of NF-κB in nucleoprotein, while increase the content of IκBα in plasmoprotein. Conclusion: SBTI is useful in protecting experimental pulmonary injury induced by LPS in rats.