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The Emergence and Control of Olfactory Circuits in Development

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K14946
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Neurophysiology / General neuroscience
Research InstitutionKyushu University

Principal Investigator

Leiwe Marcus  九州大学, 医学研究院, 助教 (80722008)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
KeywordsOlfaction / Olfactory System / Sensory Systems / Olfactory Bulb / Mitral Cells / Neurodevelopment / Odour / Mice / 発生 / 発達 / Optogenetics / Dendrites / Spontaneous Activity
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We wanted to understand how the perception of odour changes during development. By using mice we could see that there were several changes that occurred in the olfactory bulb circuitry during development. Firstly, we found that this activity relies on the NR1 subunit of the NMDA receptor, and by knocking out the sub-unit you not only change the pattern of activity, but you prevent mitral cell dendrite pruning.
We then went on to try to explore what changes in olfactory perception during development by delivering odours from baby-adult mice while imaging the olfactory bulb with 2 photon calcium imaging. We are currently, processing the data in order to determine the effect of the differences and whether the two forms of odour encoding occur seperately or together and when they occur. Additionaly, we tried to perturb the development of mitral cells with optogenetics, however, those studies were unfruitful.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

These finding will be of significance to the wider scientific community as it begins to explore how a functioning sensory system adapts during its development. We determined that while as previously claimed mice can smell from birth, the nature of what they perceive is different to that of the adult

Report

(3 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Bright multicolor labeling of neuronal circuits with fluorescent proteins and chemical tags2018

    • Author(s)
      Sakaguchi Richi、Leiwe Marcus N、Imai Takeshi
    • Journal Title

      eLife

      Volume: 7

    • DOI

      10.7554/elife.40350

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] In vivo two-photon imaging of the embryonic cortex reveals spontaneous ketamine-sensitive calcium activity2018

    • Author(s)
      Yuryev M, Andriichuk L, Leiwe M, Jokinen V, Carabalona A, Rivera C
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 8(1) Issue: 1

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41598-018-34410-x

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Spontaneous Activity of the Olfactory Bulb Establishes the Discrete Connectivity of Mitral Cell Dendrites2019

    • Author(s)
      Leiwe M, Fujimoto S, Imai T
    • Organizer
      AMED-MRC Neuroscience Symposium
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Bright multicolour labelling of neuronal circuits with fluorescent proteins and chemical tags2019

    • Author(s)
      Leiwe M, Sakaguchi R, Imai T
    • Organizer
      ISBM2019
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Spontaneous Network Activity in the Awake Neonatal Mouse Olfactory Bulb2018

    • Author(s)
      Leiwe M, Fujimoto S, Imai T
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Molecular and Neural Mechanisms of Taste and Olfactory Perception
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Spontaneous Activity and Development in the Neonatal Mouse Olfactory Bulb2018

    • Author(s)
      Marcus Leiwe, Satoshi Fujimoto, Takeshi Imai
    • Organizer
      UK Semiochemistry Network Annual Meeting
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Spontaneous Network Activity in the Neonatal Mouse Olfactory Bulb Regulates Dendrite Pruning of Mitral Cells2017

    • Author(s)
      Marcus Leiwe, Satoshi Fujimoto, Takeshi Imai
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Molecular and Neural Mechanisms of Taste and Olfactory Perception
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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