Primary Recipient

THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$50,000.00

Award Date

8/14/2009

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

The proliferative function of colonic epithelial progenitors during gut injury is maintained in part through the actions of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) that is produced in the mesenchyme by Ptgs2. We found that high constitutive levels of Ptgs2 are produced b