Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Amount

$246,750.00

Award Date

9/07/2010

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

Project Description: The importance of innate immune cells in the pathophysiology of alcoholic liver injury is evident from animal models and human studies. Resident macrophages in the liver are activated by endotoxin in portal circulation to produce infl