| Budget Amount *help |
¥16,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,840,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Adult hearts have little regenerative capacity. We found that Tbx6 overexpression could induce mesoderm and cardiac progenitor gene expression in fibroblasts. We also found that Tbx6 is critical for mesoderm induction and subsequent lineage diversification from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). Transient Tbx6 expression induced nascent mesoderm and cardiovascular lineages from mouse and human PSCs, whereas prolonged Tbx6 expression suppressed cardiac differentiation and induced somite lineages, including skeletal muscle and chondrocytes.
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