Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Updating memory and changing behavior at the right time is crucial for animals to survive in constantly fluctuating environments. In order to elucidate molecular and neural mechanisms underlying memory updating, a forward genetic screen was performed on plasticity of thermotaxis behavior of <i>C. elegans</i>. SLO-2, a potassium channel involved in a pathogenesis of several types of epilepsies, was found to regulate the speed of memory updating.
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