2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic research for development of effective inducing strategy of sublingual immune tolerance
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16K15772
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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 |
Morphological basic dentistry
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
黒石 智誠 東北大学, 歯学研究科, 講師 (30400261)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
TANAKA Yukinori JSPS, 特別研究員(PD) (60637958)
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| Research Collaborator |
LU Lu
SHISHIDO Kaori
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 免疫寛容 / 舌下免疫 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is an allergen-specific treatment for allergy. SLIT increases allergen tolerance with safety and effective effect. However, the effect is not always strong enough, strategy to increase SLIT is anticipated. This study aimed at finding a substance that augment the effect of SLIT by using delayed-type hypersensitivity mouse mode. Among candidate substances that can induce regulatory T cells, we succeeded to find out one substance (referred to substance A). SLIT enhancing effect by substance A was long-lasting, but production fo retinoic acid by sublingual mucosal dendritic cells. We are still challenging to elucidate the underlying mechanism.
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| Free Research Field |
口腔免疫学
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