Figure 2From: Tanshinone IIA pretreatment protects free flaps against hypoxic injury by upregulating stem cell-related biomarkers in epithelial skin cells Isolated epidermal cells that were pretreated with TSA for 2Â weeks showed enhanced resistance to CoCl 2 , which was used to mimic hypoxia in vitro. After exposure to CoCl2 for 72Â h, nuclear DAPI staining revealed larger number of TSA-pretreated cells than control cells (A). A CCK-8 assay demonstrated that TSA-pretreated cells showed more proliferation than control cells after exposure to CgCl2 for 96Â h (B). A Trypan Blue assay showed that the survival rate of TSA-pretreated cells was higher than that of control cells after treatment with CoCl2 (C).Back to article page