| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥6,890,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,590,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I studied how oxytocin, a neuropeptide often called the “love hormone”, acts in the brain to affect autonomic physiological functions, such as body temperature regulation and stress-coping responses. By employing in vivo optogenetic techniques to selectively stimulate a group of oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamus together with other anatomical and physiological techniques, I identified an oxytocinergic neuronal pathway that stimulates brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and tachycardia.
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