2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Can beneficial effects of food factors reach embryo via mother's body?
| Project/Area Number |
24650492
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Eating habits, studies on eating habits
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| Research Institution | University of Miyazaki |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIMOI Kayoko 静岡県立大学, 環境科学研究所, 教授 (10162728)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 抗酸化成分 / 母子間移行 / 胎児益性 / 食品機能 / 脂質代謝 |
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| Research Abstract |
We evaluated whether beneficial effects existed in the foods and food factors can reach embryo and infant via mother's body, and obtained the results indicating that some factors, such as bilberry anthocyanins, might affect on the lipid metabolic pathway, but not the antioxidative system, in the liver on embryo, when mothers were consuming food factors. On the other hand, extracts of bitter cucumber, which has been reported to reduce the hepatic triacylglycerol level in the adult animals, did not exert any effects on hepatic lipid metabolism in the mice embryo. We are continuing the studies to obtain further evidences on this research topics.
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