which is based on the ability of live cells to reduce the tetrazulium-based compound MTT to a purplish formazan product. Cell viability is proportional to the amount of dehydrogenase activity within the
We thank LetPub (www.letpub.com) for its linguistic assistance during the preparation of this manuscript. The work was supported by the Academy of Finland, grant numbers #299087, #328265, #311415, #331368, #343408, The Finnish Science Foundation for Technology and Economics, grant number ...