Advanced Minimum Essential medium (A-MEM), heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS), GlutaMAX™ Supplement, TrypLE™ Select, Hank’s balanced salt solution (HBSS), and 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-1-ethanesulfonic acid (HEPES) were purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA, USA)...