U2OS or S180 cells were planted in 6-well plates (2 × 10
5 cells/well). After incubation over night, RPMI 1640 medium (11 mM glucose) containing 3 % FBS with or without serial concentrations of IS were replaced to the 6-well plates. After cells were treated with IS for 24 h, culture media were collected and diluted 1 : 1000 in water. Glucose in the culture media was quantitated via an
Amplex Red Glucose/Glucose Oxidase Kit (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, USA) using a standard curve prepared with serial dilutions of RPMI 1640 (11 mM glucose) into glucose-free RPMI 1640. Fluorescence was read using a
Spectra-Max Paradigm Multi-Mode Microplate Detection Platform (Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, California, United States) at Ex./Em. = 530 nm / 590 nm and normalized to the number of cells in each well counted by
BD Accuri™ C6 flow cytometer (Becton & Dickinson Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ). Cell-free medium was used as a background control. The concentration of glucose uptake in each sample was then calculated. Glucose uptake was determined by subtracting the amount of glucose in each sample from the total amount of glucose in cell-free medium (11 mM glucose). In SW1353 cells, the incubation medium was replaced by DMEM medium and glucose uptake was assayed by the same method.
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