IL17A and acute respiratory distress syndrome: In the study of septic visceral organ injury, IL-17 and IL-17 signaling pathway have been confirmed to be involved in ALI and endotoxic shock (Alnfakh et al. 2022; Giangola et al. 2013; Kwon et al. 2019; Wang et al. 2022c; Zhang et al. 2023a).