Primary Recipient

RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Amount

$987,722.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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 peripheral chemoreceptors (carotid bodies) detect changes in blood oxygen and / or pH whereas central chemoreceptors detect changes in brain extracellular fluid pH. When activated, these receptors produce a large spectrum of effects that include the s