Research Project
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
The purpose of this study is an establishment of technique to analyze the new islets, pancreatic duct, and blood vessel in pancreas of mouse three-dimensionally using an Optical Projection Tomography (OPT). Islets and blood vessel in pancreas could be constructed three-dimensionally by OPT. And the islets transplantation onto iris of mouse which expressed luciferase protein in islets was occurred to easily observe the nascent islets. The transplanted islets were observed and analyzed by stereomicroscope or IVIS system. As a result, the transplanted islets could be observed and the luciferase activity from islets was evaluated dose dependent manner. Next, agonist for GLP-1 receptor was used for evaluating the nascent islets from transplanted islets. Two weeks injections induce the tendency of increase of luciferase activity derived from transplanted islets which include the nascent islets. Therefore, this method has a possibility to observe and evaluate the nascent islets.
All 2014 2013 2012
All Journal Article (1 results) Presentation (14 results)
Springer Protocols
Volume: 1121 Pages: 139-146
10.1007/978-1-4614-9632-8_12