Primary Recipient

BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS

Amount

$120,393.00

Award Date

9/15/2009

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

In this proposal we study the physiological significance of cell-specific alternative splicing of the voltage-gated N-type calcium channel CaVa1 subunit in nociceptive neurons of the dorsal root ganglia. N- type calcium channels regulate release of gluta