Grant: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Primary Recipient
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Amount
$156,820.00
Award Date
5/04/2010
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 overall objective is to define the Ca2+-dependent signaling pathway in hypothalamic neurons that regulates appetite and body weight to provide novel insights to human obesity. AMPK, originally discovered to protect cells against stresses that deplete