Fig. 3

Live/dead assay: Representative live/dead cell images of experimental sealers with and without simvastatin on L929 cells at 24 h and day 7 of culture, observed under phase contrast fluorescence microscopy at 20 ×. The bottom row shows the enlarged images of 7th day. Live cells stained green, and dead cells shown in red. In all the groups, the live cells were abundant and few dead cells were noted in ZE,ER and ERS