Grant: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Primary Recipient
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Amount
$96,400.00
Award Date
9/07/2009
Administering Agency
Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health
CDFA Number
93.701
CDFA Program Title
Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support
Description
During the first phase of the AMDCC our group at TJU studied the decorin KO diabetic mouse. Our hypothesis was that decorin acts as an endogenous protective factor by inhibiting active TGF-b. We found that decorin is indeed protective, as decorin KO mice