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Bioresource Chemistry Lab
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The lab studies how essential trace elements such as selenium function in the body.
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Revealing how trace elements work through analysis
Assistant Professor Kazuaki Takahashi specializes in analytical chemistry, nutrition, and toxicology, and studies essential trace elements.
Focusing mainly on selenium, the lab analyzes metal-containing metabolites in plants and animals to investigate their nutritional properties and physiological effects.
The lab also studies the gut microbiota, working to clarify the symbiotic relationship between the microbiota and the host that is mediated by trace elements as nutrients.
Key terms
- Essential trace elements
- Elements that living organisms need in very small amounts to survive, such as selenium
- Metabolites
- Substances produced by chemical changes of other substances inside the body
- Gut microbiota
- The community of many different kinds of bacteria living in the intestines
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The lab focuses on essential trace elements, especially selenium, and studies in what forms they exist in living organisms and how they function. It also investigates the relationship between gut bacteria and their host that is mediated by trace elements.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating selenium-containing metabolites
Focusing mainly on the essential trace element selenium, the lab analyzes metal-containing metabolites in plants and animals, aiming to clarify their nutritional properties and physiological effects.
*Illustrative imageGut bacteria and their host, connected by trace elements
The lab studies the gut microbiota, aiming to clarify the symbiotic relationship with the host that is mediated by trace elements as nutrients.
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- Assistant ProfessorKazuaki Takahashi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “PerkinElmerICP-768x576” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Investigating selenium-containing metabolites: “Selenium (Element - 34)” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Gut bacteria and their host, connected by trace elements: “Lactobacillus LB” Apl23 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Molecular Biofunction Lab): “Plant Cells, Being Plasmolyzed” Ouotro / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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