“…Murine myoblast cell line C2C12 (DS Pharma Biomedical, Osaka, Japan) [20,23], rat embryonic thoracic aorta smooth muscle cell line A10 (CRL-1476; ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) [28,29], and murine 3T3-L1 fibroblast cell line (IFO50416; JCRB Cell Bank, Osaka, Japan) as a model of pre-adipocytes [30] were cultured in DMEM (Nacalai, Osaka, Japan) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (HyClone; GE Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA) and a mixture of 100 units/ml penicillin and 100 μg/ml streptomycin (Nacalai) at 37°C under 5% CO2 throughout the experiments.…”