2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
How do short-chain fatty acid affect host behaviors?
| Project/Area Number |
15K15276
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
General internal medicine(including psychosomatic medicine)
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 短鎖脂肪酸 / 食物繊維 / 腸内細菌 / 行動特性 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we used the diet containing acetylated, propionylated or butyrylated starches in order to increase the level of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) in the intestinal lumen. As a result, the diet was good for the growth of mice and resulted in the creation of SCFA such as acetic acid, propionic acid or butyric acid in the cecum. We fed SPF mice with the diet and investigated physiological function. However, no definite behavior change was found between the mice group which did have SCFA containing diet and did not. In conclusion, this diet is considered to be useful for elucidating the mechanism by which SCFA derived from gut microbe affect host physiology.
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| Free Research Field |
内科学一般（含心身医学）
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