Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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Research Abstract |
We used hair keratin-deficient rats (Hirosaki hairless rats, HHRs) that have abnormal hair follicle morphogenesis to determine the function of hair keratin in the epidermis and hair follicle morphogenesis. In transcriptome analysis, expression of the keratin-associated protein (KRTAP) gene critically decreased in HHRs. Thus, we believe that hair keratin functions as a regulator of KRTAP gene expression and decreases expression of genes that cause abnormal hair follicle morphogenesis.
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