The antibodies and apoptosis detection kit used were as follows:
LC3 (3868), Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA); p62/SQSTM1 (ab56416) and Pax1 (ab95227), Abcam (Cambridge, UK);
beclin1 (sc-11427), brachyury (sc-17743), and
CD24 (sc-11406), Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA, USA);
α-tubulin (T9026), Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA); TUNEL (11684795910), Roche Diagnostics (Mannheim, Germany).
The reagents used for cell culture were as follows:
Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (D5796) and fetal bovine serum (FBS) (F2442), Sigma-Aldrich; penicillin/streptomycin (26253-84), Nakarai Tesque (Kyoto, Japan);
collagenase type 2 (LS004176), Worthington Biochemical (Lakewood, NJ, USA).
The reagents used for Western blotting and immunostaining were obtained from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA, USA), Nakarai Tesque, Bio Craft (Tokyo, Japan), GE Healthcare (Chicago, IL, USA), Nichirei Biosciences (Tokyo, Japan), and Dako (Glostrup, Denmark).
The other reagents used were obtained from Wako Pure Chemical Industries (Osaka, Japan).
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