“…Human colonic epithelial cell line, Caco-2 cells (passage #25-35), were obtained from American Type Cell Culture (ATCC, Manassas, VA) and were directly seeded on tissue culture polycarbonate membrane filters in 24-well Transwell ® plates (pore size 3.0 μm, Corning, New York, NY) (Kowapradit et al, 2010;Lea, 2015;Schimpel et al, 2014;Svensson, Finlay, Bass, von Bonsdorff, & Greenberg, 1991;Ye, Dawson, & Lynch, 2015) at a seeding density of 1 × 10 4 cells/cm 2 (Kowapradit et al, 2010;Olejnik, Lewandowska, Grajek, & Czaczyk, 2003), in order to produce 2D transwell culture. For organotypic culture, 3D-CGE and 3D-CSSE (6 mm diameter) were rinsed with three washes of PBS solution, then were accommodate in the 24well Transwell ® inserts (diameter, 6.5 mm; Corning) and allowed to dry for 5 min under laminar flow.…”