2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Application to forest medical aromatherapy using woody essential oil flavor
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26292093
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Wood science
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| Research Institution | Gifu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
清水 邦義 九州大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (20346836)
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| Research Collaborator |
YAMAUCHI Kosei 岐阜大学, 応用生物科学部, 助教
INAMOTO Tadashi 正プラス株式会社, 取締役社長
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 樹木精油 / 自律神経活動 / テルペン類 / スギ / ヒノキ / ヒバ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Essential oils from Japaneses Cedar and Hinoki has well known to give a psychological ease and physiological relaxation effect to a human beings. However there are few reports about how do these essential oils work out in scientifically. Present study showed that the high volatile fractions mono-terpens and sesqui-terpenes depressed the sympathetic nerve activity of anesthesia rat when these essential oils were given to the nose of the rat.Through this experiment we have demonstrated the essential oils from Cedar and Hinoki grown in Gifu prefecture and Aomori Hiba should give a physiological and psychological effects to human and animals in scientific aspects.
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| Free Research Field |
天然物利用化学
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