2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The production of NG2 (+) cell conditional dysfunction mice for purposes of elucidation of schizophrenia.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22890239
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Psychiatric science
Research Institution	The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
Principal Investigator	TOYOSHIMA Manabu The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 分子精神科学研究チーム, 研究員 (90582750)
Project Period (FY)	2010
Keywords	統合失調症 / NG2(+)細胞 / FABP7
Research Abstract	We produced the NG2 (+) cell conditional dysfunction mice for purposes of elucidation of schizophrenia. About 50 % of NG2 (+) cells were impaired by tamoxifen treatment in the NG2 (+) cell conditional dysfunction mice.