2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Influence of dietary habits on gut health and occurrence of allergic diseases

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20500709
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Eating habits, studies on eating habits
Research Institution	The University of Tokushima
Principal Investigator	KATAOKA Keiko The University of Tokushima, 大学院・ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 講師 (40189303)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	ARIMOCHI Hideki 徳島大学, 大学院・ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 助教 (30311822)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	健康と食生活
Research Abstract	Fecal microbiota in atopic dermatitis patients, who were diagnosed in Tokushima University hospital, was analysed by Terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) method and culture method. Dietary habits in the subjects were balanced. However, T-RF patterns in their fecal microbiota were different from those in healthy control and ulcerative colitis patients, and the number of T-RFs was not decreased. Total number of bacteria and viable cell number of aerobic bacteria was the same level as healthy control.

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