Development of a novel taste cell culture system

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12343
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Eating habits
• Research Institution: Wakayama Shin-ai Women's Junior College (2017); Kagoshima University (2015-2016)
• Principal Investigator: INOUE Kazuhiko 和歌山信愛女子短期大学, その他部局等, 講師 (30363641)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 味細胞 / 3次元培養 / スフェロイド

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We can sense the taste through taste cells in the taste bud of the tongue. It is thought that taste cells are useful for elucidating mechanisms for sensing taste such as sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and umami taste, and searching for substances from which these taste are produced. However, the methods for isolation and culture of taste cells have not yet been established. Therefore, we tried to find a new method to cultivate taste cells while maintaining their function by culturing in a stereoscopic (three dimensional) condition rather than a plane (two dimensional).

Free Research Field

栄養生化学、機能性食品、薬用食品学