2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Improvement of trans-synaptic tracers for the elucidation of taste coding
| Project/Area Number |
26292064
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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 |
Food science
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
Okada Shinji 東京大学, 農学生命科学研究科, 特任准教授 (50376563)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 味覚 / 神経回路 / トレーサー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The coding mechanisms including neural pathways that transduce the taste senses information remain unknown. To elucidate these matters, we have developed novel trans-synaptic tracer transgenes that enable the visualization of neural circuits originating from two distinct cell populations simultaneously. The correlation among the neural circuits originate from four populations of taste receptor cells were revealed by the developed visualization technique in this study.
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| Free Research Field |
食品科学
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