Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

Amount

$18,134.00

Award Date

6/05/2009

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

Fibroblasts mediate the abnormal tissue repair characteristic of fibrosis, but their origin in fibrotic lung remains unclear. Many of the fibrogenic characteristics of lung fibroblasts are regulated by expression of Thy-1, an outer membrane leaflet surfac