After different treatment strategies, cells were treated with 0.25 mg/ml MTT (Sigma, Missouri, USA) at 37°C for 3 h, followed by removing the medium and adding the dimethyl sulfoxide to produce blue formazan. Then, the microplate reader (Mindray, Shenzhen, China) was used to measure the absorbance at 630 nm [17 (link)].
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