Materials
| Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
| 6-well culture dish | Falcon | REF 353502 | Air-Liquid Interface (ALI) Cultures |
| Cell culture inset | Falcon | REF 353090. | 0.4 µm Transparent PET Membrane |
| Collagenase Type 1 | Worthington Biochemical | LS004196 | |
| Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium | Corning | 10-013-CV | 4.5 g/L glucose |
| Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium salt dihydrate (EDTA) | Sigma-Aldrich | E5134 | |
| Fetal bovine serum | ThermoFisher | 16140-071 | |
| Glucose | Sigma-Aldrich | G8270 | |
| Hanks’s buffered saline solution | Gibco | 14170-112 | No calcium, no magnesium |
| Penicillin/streptomycin | Gibco | 15-140-122 | |
| Pogassium phosphate monobasic (KH2PO4) | Sigma-Aldrich | P5379 | |
| Potassium chloride (KCl) | Sigma-Aldrich | P9333 | |
| Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) | Sigma-Aldrich | S6014 | |
| Sodium chloride (Nacl) | EMD | CAS 7647-14-5 | |
| Sodium phosphate monobasic (NaH2PO4) | Sigma-Aldrich | S0751 | |
| Trypsin | Gibco | 27250-042 |
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