| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Using the retrovirus vectors encoding EGFP, we labeled proliferating cells in an organotypic slice culture of the postnatal rat hippocampus and tracked an EGFP-labeled single progenitor cell and its descendants as a lineage over a long period. We found that the newly generated neurons became frequently untraceable and this critical traceability period was 2-14 days. It is suggested that the newly generated neurons differentiate into mature dentate granule neurons once they have survived over the critical period. We also created novel genetic probes, which consist of an optogenetic or chemical actuator and an apoptosis detecting reporter. They would help us to reveal the processes that determine the fate of newly generated neurons in an activity-dependent manner.
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