| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Despite its unique potential to visualize biological phenomena that can hardly be achieved by other means, applications of second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging to biological researches had remained unexplored. In this study, we tried to overcome this problem by searching for novel SHG dyes as well as new biological targets to apply SHG imaging. We successfully developed new SHG dyes based on unprecedented concepts and found that astrocytes play crucial roles in the brain functions by virtue of their unique cellular characteristics, making astrocytes ideal and important new targets of SHG imaging. Further development of SHG dyes and their applications to SHG imaging of astrocytes are expected to contribute to the development of SHG imaging as well as the cellular understandings of astrocytes in the brain.
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