Project/Area Number |
10470457
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B).
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Periodontal dentistry
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Research Institution | NIIGATA UNIVERSITY |
Principal Investigator |
YOSHIE Hiromasa NIIGATA UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Dentistry Professor, 歯学部, 教授 (20143787)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KOBAYASHI Tetsuo NIIGATA UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Dentistry Assistant, 歯学部, 助手 (00215344)
YAMAZAKI Kazuhisa NIIGATA UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Dentistry Associate professor, 歯学部, 助教授 (00182478)
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Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥13,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥3,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000)
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Keywords | Periodontitis / Susceptibility / Gene |
Research Abstract |
The aim of this study is to identify genes which relate to susceptibility for periodontitis by using RNA arbitrarily primed PCR(RAP-PCR). RAP-PCR enables to show finger-print of a difference of mRNA expression on a gel. In first stage, human neutrophils were separated from peripheral blood of 6 healthy volunteers, stimulated with P.gingivalis-LPS and E.coli-LPS as controls. The RAP-PCR results demonstrated that differential gene expression was caused by P.gingivalis-LPS stimulation in neutrophils(Dentistry in Japan, 1999). In the second stage, the sequencing and semiquantitative RT-PCR analyses demonstrated that supervillin and vascular endothelial growth factor genes were significantly upregulated by P.gingivalis-LPS in neutrophils compared to other bacterial(A.actinomycetemcomitans, P.intermedia, E.coli)LPS and synthetic lipid A stimulations(J Periodont Res, 2001). In the third stage, we examined differential gene expression in neutrophils from patients with generalized early-onset periodontitis patients(EOP, n=6)using RAP-PCR.Age and gender matched healthy volunteers(H, n=8)and generalized adult periodontitis patients(AP, n=6)were used as control subjects. Neutrophils separated from peripheral blood were stimulated with N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine. The RAP-PCR with 45 primer pairs was performed as our previous study. The RT-PCR analyses revealed that mRNA for heat shock transcription factor 4b was significantly greater in neutrophils from EOP compared to those from the controls(H and AP). While, Kruppel-like zinc finger transcription factor 9 and muskelin mRNA were significantly lower in EOP compared to H controls(J Periodont Res, in press).
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