Course: Agriculture and Nutrition

This course is a project cooperated with Tohoku University. You will learn about the bioactive components and the benefits of rice bran and fermented rice bran for preventing chronic diseases …

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Continuing on explaining Driselase fraction, Professor Shirakawa went further to isolate other ingredients. The research identified adenosine as the main functional ingredient from Driselase fraction. Adenosine is a nucleic acid …

Please take some time to read this essay, Rice bran nutraceutics: A comprehensive reviewI Rice bran is an important byproduct of rice. Due to its nutrient-rich composition, rice bran has …

Professor Nochi will explain the correlation of CCL28 Between CCR10 and CCR3 in this video. CCL28 is a critical chemokine that recruits the IgA-producing plasma cells into the mammary gland. …

Welcome to this course on the Agriculture and Nutrition: Functional Property of Processed Rice Bran. This video introduces you to the main themes we will cover over the next two …

In this video, professor SHIRAKAWA will introduce γ-oryzanol. The major byproducts of rice bran oil include γ-Oryzanol, ferulic acid, inositol, phytic acid, tocotrienol, geranylgeraniol, and so on. This video shows …

Professor SHIRAKAWAR will explain how to find other functional ingredients from rice bran in this video. The research team used the enzyme, Driselase, to break down ell wall and get …

Please take some time to read this article, Understanding the mechanisms of faecal microbiota transplantation. Have you ever heard of FMT(fecal microbiota transplantation)? FMT, also known as a stool transplant, …

The physiological basis of breastfeeding Breast milk contains all the nutrients that an infant needs in the neonatal period, both in cattle and humans. It is easily digested and efficiently …

Do you know what CCL28(C-C Motif Chemokine Ligand 28) is? CCL28 is a kind of Protein Coding genes, which chemotactic activity is to rest CD4, CD8 T-cell and eosinophils, inducing …

Here is a related research that we would recommend, Dextran Sulfate Sodium (DSS)-Induced Colitis in Mice. Ulcerative colitis (UC), one of the chronic remittent or progressive inflammatory condition that commonly …

DSS(Dextran Sodium Sulfate) is a kind of colitis-inducer. In the previous video, we saw the FRB supplement could alleviate the impact of DSS on mice. The link to the comprehensive …

The secondary lymphoid tissues is thought to enhance the sensitivity of antigen recognition and to support proper regulation of the activation and maturation of the antigen-responsive lymphoid cells. Here is …

Peyer’s patches (PPs) are unique compared to other secondary lymphoid tissues. This review introduces a current understanding of how PPs foster B-cell encounters with antigen, how they favor isotype switching …