Rat adrenal pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells were purchased from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, cat. no. CRL-1721). CPCGI was obtained from Jilin Buchang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. DMEM high-sugar medium, horse serum, and fetal bovine serum were purchased from Gibco (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.).
PC12 cells were cultured in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum and 5% horse serum, and cultured at 37°C with 95% humidity and 5% CO2 (20 (link)). PC12 cells were divided into control, model, model + vehicle (PBS) and model + CPCGI. In the model + vehicle and model + CPCGI groups, PC12 cells were pre-treated with PBS and CPCGI separately for 1 h before stimulation with 50 µM Aβ25–35 (Sigma-Aldrich; Merck KGaA) for 24 h. PC12 cells in the model group were stimulate with 50 µM Aβ25–35 for 24 h (21 (link)). Cells in the control group were not subjected to any treatment. Subsequently, PC12 cells in each group were subjected to the following experiments.