2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Establishment of the eating-habits control method by light

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23650479
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Eating habits, studies on eating habits
Research Institution	The University of Tokushima
Principal Investigator	HARADA Yumi 徳島大学, ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 技術補佐員 (80568395)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	AKUTAGAWA Masatake 徳島大学, ソシオテクノサイエンス研究部, 講師 (90294727) AIHARA Mutumi 徳島大学, ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 学術研究員 (60596211) MAWATARI Kazuaki 徳島大学, ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 講師 (40352372)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	光 / 発光ダイオード / 食生活行動
Research Abstract	The luminescence system from ultraviolet to visible light was made as an experiment focusing on the light emitting diode. And laboratory animals were irradiated using the equipment, and eating-habits action and metabolism were changed by the irradiation. The change was depending on the wavelength of the light irradiation. Moreover, gene expression profile were also changed depend on the wavelength of the light irradiation. These suggested that the eating-habits environment would be controllable by using the light irradiation.