“…MLO-Y4 cells were cultured in α-modified minimum essential medium (Sigma-Aldrich) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (SAFC Bioscience, Inc., Lenexa, KS, USA) with 100 µg/ml kanamycin (Meiji, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) and maintained in plates or flasks coated with 0.15 mg/ml rat tail collagen type I (BD Biosciences, Bedford, MA, USA) at 37˚C in a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO 2 in air. In addition, the mouse stromal ST2 cell line was obtained from the RIKEN Cell Bank (Tsukuba, Japan), and cells were cultured as described previously (19).…”