2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Establishment of a new treatment for xerostomia focused on salivary secretion mechanism of chewing
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23792223
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Prosthetic dentistry
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| Research Institution | Okayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
KODAMA Naoki 岡山大学, 大学院・医歯薬学総合研究科, 助教 (70534519)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 顎下腺 / 唾液分泌 / 大脳皮質咀嚼野 / ラット / 顎運動 / 顎二腹筋 |
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| Research Abstract |
Saliva have a crucial role to facilitate bolus formation and swallowing during mastication. It is well-known that there is a significant relationship between chewing and saliva, but it remains poorly understood. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to validate the stimulus saliva during mastication and the muscle activity of mastication related muscle, and to elucidate the relationship between jaw movement and salivary secretion mechanism. As a result, P-area of the cerebral cortex mastication area controls salivation and jaw movement simultaneously, and the result indicates that there is the high correlation between the frequency ofjaw movement and the amount of salivary secretion.
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