“…In this assay, adapted from Chen et al 2016 [45], PBMCs from 2 different donors, were seeded at 10 6 cells/mL in C-10 medium (RPMI 1640 without phenol red, +10% FBS (Corning, Corning, NY, USA), +1% P/S (Gibco-BRL), +0.1% β-mercaptoethanol (Gibco-BRL, Waltham, MA, USA), +0.1% sodium pyruvate (Gibco-BRL, Waltham, MA, USA), +0.1% sodium bicarbonate (Gibco-BRL, Waltham, MA, USA) and stimulated with 100 pg/mL of LPS. Cells were treated/stimulated in the same way as in the previous assay, with the same test groups and controls but the assay was kept for 96 h. After 96 h, 10 µL/well of an aqueous solution (5 mg/mL) of tetrazolium blue (Merk, Darmstadt, Germany) was added.…”