| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Taste bud cells, belonging to epithelialcelllineage, play essential roles in taste perception, and continuously turnover even in the adult stage. Many aspects about their differentiation are unknown, then, in this study, I searched for transcription factors expressed in taste bud cells, and investigated the expression and function of these factors. As a result, I found two factors of MEF2 and NFAT families, and found that they begin to express concomitantly with the differentiation of type II cells which have main taste sensations. In addition, the regulatory process is related to the calcium signaling of taste transduction.
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