“…After an overnight incubation, cells were treated with/without liquiritigenin (0.02, 0.2, or 2 μmol/L) for 24 h, followed by addition of 10 μmol/L Aβ [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] and further incubation with liquiritigenin for 72 h. For targeted detection of Apbb-1, cells were treated with liquiritigenin (0.02, 0.2, or 2 μmol/L) alone for 24 h, then lysed with 4 °C cell lysis buffer (Beyotime, China) as recommended by the manufacturer. SDS-PAGE and Western blotting were performed according to standard protocols [22] using 40 μg protein per lane. Primary antibodies were as follows: Bcl-2 (Beyotime, China, 1:500 dilution), Bax (Beyotime, China, 1:500 dilution), Ntf-3 (Chemicon, USA, 1:1000 dilution), Apbb-1 (Bioss, China, 1:200 dilution), β-tubulin (Walterson, China, 1:1000 dilution, as internal control) and secondary antibody (goat anti-rabbit or goat anti-mouse IgG-HRP, Zhongshan, China, 1:2000 dilution).…”