| Project/Area Number |
10470498
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Environmental pharmacy
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
UTSUMI Hideo Kyushu University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Professor, 薬学研究科, 教授 (20101694)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ICHIWAKA Kazuhiro Kyushu University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Research Associate, 薬学研究科, 助手 (10271115)
TAKESHITA Keigo National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chief Investigator, 主任研究員 (70175438)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥12,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥8,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,400,000)
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| Keywords | Organic halogens / Transgenic animals / Redox / Reactive oxygen species / Free radicals / Electron spin resonance / 電子スピン共鳴法 / 遺伝子組換え動物 / 酸化ストレス / 抗酸化酵素 |
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| Research Abstract |
Environmental fields, such as river water, lake water, are contaminated with trihalo-methane, total organic halogen compounds, pre-dioxins and so on. Recently, it was reported in in vitro experiments, that generation of reactive oxygen species and/or nitric oxide affects redox regulation, and that such disorder of redox regulation participates in toxicities of these organic halogen compounds. In in vivo, antioxidant systems establish complicated radical-radical interactions and redox regulations. These facts indicated that in vivo toxicity of organic halogen compounds is different from that observed in in vitro experiments. It is therefore very important to measure disorder of in vivo redox directly.
Electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ERS) is a unique method to measure unpaired electron spin. We have reported in vivo generation of bioradicals in several disease models of mice with in vivo ERS apparatus using nitroxyl radicals as radical probes. Measurements of changes in in vivo redox by organic halogen compounds using transgenic mice model of antioxidant, would clarify the mechanisms of toxicity of these halogen compounds in molecular level.
Transgenic mice used in these experiments are bred in our laboratory. Breeding of transgenic mice of antioxidant was very difficult since probability of mating and numbers of littermates was fewer than that of nontransgenic mice. The result of project is now submitted to a journal.
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