Tissues or cells were lysed in TRIzol, and RNA was isolated using an Invitrogen™ PureLink RNA Mini Kit (Cat No: 12183025, ThermoFisher) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. RNA concentration was determined by NanoOne, and an equal amount of RNA was used to prepare cDNA using LunaScript® RT SuperMix (New England BioLabs, Cat no: M3010L) according to the manufacturer’s conditions. qPCR was performed by TaqMan primer probes using Luna Universal Probe qPCR Master Mix (New England Biolabs, Cat No: M3004) and Bio-Rad i-cycler according to standard lab procedures9 (link),10 (link),31 (link). HPRT was used to normalize gene expression31 (link),32 (link). The ∆∆Ct method was used to calculate relative gene expression values in qPCR analysis.
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