2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysis of neural mechanisms underlying coodination of jaw, tongue, lip and cheek movements
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20592186
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Functional basic dentistry
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| Research Institution | Showa University |
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Principal Investigator |
INOUE Tomio Showa University, 歯学部, 教授 (70184760)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAMURA Shiro 昭和大学, 歯学部・口腔生理学教室, 助教 (60384187)
NAKAYAMA Kiyomi 昭和大学, 歯学部・口腔生理学教室, 助教 (00433798)
MOCHIZUKI Ayako 昭和大学, 歯学部・口腔生理学教室, 助教 (10453648)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 口腔生理学 / 咀嚼 / 協調運動 |
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| Research Abstract |
Mastication is a highly coordinated movement of the jaw, tongue, lip and the cheek, in which food is hold by the tongue and cheek, and then food is crushed by the upper and lower jaws with closure of the lips. Motor commands for the coordinated movement patterns of the jaw, tongue, lip and the cheek are thought to be produced by the pattern generator for mastication ; however, the detail is not still clear. In the present study, we investigated regions in frontal brainstem slice preparation from neonatal rats where premotor neurons targeting for jaw-opening, jaw-closing and facial motoneurons were located, using voltage-sensitive dye, whole-cell patch-clamp recordings and laser photostimulation in order to examine the neural mechanisms underlying coordination of the movements of jaw and facial muscles. Electrical stimulation of the reticular formation located between the trigeminal motor nucleus and the facial nucleus elicited optical responses both in the trigeminal motor nucleus and the facial nucleus. Photostimulation of the reticular formation also evoked post synaptic currents (PSCs) in jaw-opening, jaw-closing and facial motoneurons; however, the region of which photostimulation evoked PSCs in these three kinds of motoneurons were different among them. These results suggest that premotor neurons targeting for jaw-opening, jaw-closing and facial motoneurons might be differentially located in the reticular formation between the trigeminal motor nucleus and the facial nucleus.
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Research Products
(55 results)
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[Journal Article] Enhancement of bone morphogenetic protein-2-induced ectopic bone formation by transforming growth factor β1.2011
Author(s)
Tachi K, Takami M, Sato H, Mochizuki A, Zhao B, Miyamoto Y, Tsukasaki H, Inoue T, Shintani S, Koike T, Honda Y, Suzuki O, Baba K, Kamijo R.
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Journal Title
Tissue Eng Part A. 17(5-6)
Pages: 597-606
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[Journal Article] Decreased intake of sucrose solutions in orexin knockout mice.2011
Author(s)
Matsuo E, Mochizuki A, Nakayama K, Nakamura S, Yamamoto T, Shioda S, Sakurai T, Yanagisawa M, Shiuchi T, Minokoshi Y, Inoue T.
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Journal Title
J Mol Neurosci 43(2)
Pages: 217-24
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[Journal Article] Carbonic anhydrase II regulates differentiation of ameloblasts via Intracellular pH-dependent JNK signaling pathway.2010
Author(s)
Wang X, Suzawa T, Ohtsuka H, Zhao B, Miyamoto Y, Miyauchi T, Nishimura R, Inoue T, Nakamura M, Baba K, Kamijo R.
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Journal Title
J Cell Physiol 225
Pages: 709-719
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[Journal Article] Osteoclast differentiation induced by synthetic octacalcium phosphate through RANKL expression in osteoblasts.2009
Author(s)
Takami M, Mochizuki A, Yamada A, Tachi K, Zhao B, Miyamoto Y, Anada T, Honda Y, Inoue T, Nakamura M, Suzuki O, Kamijo R.
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Journal Title
Tissue Eng Part A 15
Pages: 3991-4000
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