Budget Amount *help |
¥6,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We established an experimental system composed of culturing murine bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and plasma cells (PC) in vitro and monitoring antibody production levels after the 7-day culture. We found that the antibody production by PC was influenced by IL-6 and other soluble factors secreted by MSC and unidentified direct interaction between MSC and PC. We also suggested that the direct interaction involves binding between an immunoregulatory receptor LILRB4 (B4) on PC and a novel B4 ligand, B4L1, expressed on MSC.
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