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Research Center for Medicinal Plant Resources

As best represented by Chinese herbal medicine, medicinal plants have been used as ingredients for pharmaceutical products from ancient times. The Research Center for Medicinal Plant Resources, the only comprehensive research center in Japan for medicinal plants, performs research and development on technology related to the cultivation and breeding of medicinal plants, chemical and biological evaluations, and cultivates and preserves more than 4,000 species and groups of medicinal plants at four divisions in Japan suitable to the vegetation of the area, to supply seeds and seedlings and offer guidance on cultivation technology to various research institutes.

General description of each division

Hokkaido Division (Nayoro City, Hokkaido)

Features
Performs research on the cultivation and rearing of top quality plants from medicinal plants in northern Japan. Plants used by Aynu are also collected.
Representative plants
Rhubarb, gentian, glycyrrhiza, astragali radix and saussureae radix, etc.

Rhubarb Gentian

Tsukuba Division (Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture)

Features
Preserves medicinal plant resources, performs chemical and biological evaluations, and conducts research using biotechnology and genetic technology while serving as the main facility of the research center. We have a collection of ephedraceae and crude drugs samples.
Representative plants
phedra, poppy, cimicifuga, bupleurum falcatum, etc.

Ephedra Poppy

Tsukuba Division, Wakayama Branch (Hidaka-cho, Hidaka-Gun, Wakayama Prefecture)

Features
Performs systematic preservation and cultivation of medicinal plants in Kinki area..
Representative plants
Tree peony, paeoniae radix, Lindera strychnifolia F. Vill., Phellodendron amurense, angelica acutiloba, etc.
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Paeoniae radix

Tanegashima Division (Nakatane-cho, Kumage-Gun, Kagoshima Prefecture)

Features
Performs research on cultivation, collection and preservation of medicinal plants in southern Japan.
Representative plants
Cinnamomum sieboldii meissen, curcuma, rauwolfia serpentina, cassia angustifolia, etc.

Curcuma Rauwolfia serpentina

Research and Activities

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    NIBIO

    Coordination Office of Research Ethics
    Department of Research and Development
    Center for Rare Disease Research
    Reverse Translational Research Project
    Platform of Therapeutics for Rare Disease
    Laboratory of Rare Disease Information and Resource Library
    Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases
    Center for Vaccine and Adjuvant Research
    Laboratory of Vaccine Materials
    Laboratory of Regulation of intractable Infectious Diseases
    Laboratory of Immunobiologics Evaluation
    Laboratory of Cell Vaccine
    Laboratory of Mockup Vaccine
    Center for Drug Design Research
    Laboratory of Proteomics for Drug Discovery
    Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Research
    Laboratory of Antibody Design
    Laboratory of XNA Screening and Design
    Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Screening
    Laboratory of Pharmacokinetic Optimization
    Laboratory of Cell Network Regulation
    Laboratory of Bioimaging and Drug Discovery
    Laboratory of Advanced Biopharmaceuticals
    Laboratory of Clinical and Analytical Chemistry
    Artificial Intelligence Center for Health and Biomedical Research
    Laboratory of Bioinformatics
    Laboratory of In silico design
    AI nutrition project
    Laboratory of Toxicogenomics Informatics
    Laboratory of Proteome Research
    Laboratory of Stem Cell Regulation
    Laboratory of Hepatocyte Regulation
    Laboratory of Cell Cultures
    Section of Laboratory Equipment
    Section of Laboratory Animals
    Research Center for Medicinal Plant Resources
    Tsukuba Primate Research Center
    Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Immunity
    Laboratory of Nuclear Transport Dynamics
    Laboratory of Gut Environmental System
    KAGAMI Project
    Laboratory of Immunosenescence

    NIHN

    Department of Nutritional Epidemiology and Shokuiku
    Section of the National Health and Nutrition Survey
    Section of Shokuiku
    Section of Dietary Guidelines
    Department of Physical Activity Research
    Section of Behavioral Physiology
    Section of Exercise Guideline
    Section of Healthy Longevity Researches
    Department of Clinical Nutrition
    Section of Nutritional Therapy
    Department of Nutrition and Metabolism
    Section of Chrononutrition
    Section of Energy Metabolism
    Department of Food Function and Labeling
    Section of Food Component Analysis
    Section of Food Safety and Function
    Section of Information Network of Health Food
    International Center for Nutrition and Information
    Section of International Nutrition Strategy
    Section of Population Health Metrics
    Section of Global Disaster Nutrition
    AI Nutrition Research team
    Section of Research Collaboration and Partnership

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