| Budget Amount *help |
¥20,150,000 (Direct Cost: ¥15,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,650,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥10,270,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,370,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been extremely inefficient with rates less than 5 percentage points since the first clone, "Dolly" the sheep. The representative researcher for this grant found that treatment of cloned embryos with trichostatin A (TSA), a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi), dramatically increase the production rate of cloned mice more than six-times. Supported by this grant, the importance of HDAC in embryonic development and a mechanism underlying improvement of SCNT by HDACi treatment were revealed and, further cloning of "unclonable" mouse strains were achieved for the first time.
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