Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,235,000 (Direct Cost: ¥950,000、Indirect Cost: ¥285,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,365,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,050,000、Indirect Cost: ¥315,000)
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Research Abstract |
Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) is an severe autoinflammatory syndrome caused by mutations of NLRP3. To investigate the mechanism of disease and for drug screening, we established patient-specific induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from two CAPS patients with somatic mosaicism. Both mutant and wild type clones were obtained, and these clones were differentiated into macrophages. Disease-associated features such as overproduction of IL-1beta, pyronecrosis were observed only in mutant clones. Thus we succeeded to establish a disease-model of CAPS using iPS cells.
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