Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE

Amount

$100,001.00

Award Date

9/04/2009

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

Gallstone pancreatitis is common and is potentially fatal. Enteral exclusion of bile-pancreatic juice by the stone causes feedback hyperstimulation of the exocrine pancreas that induces pancreatic overproduction of acute inflammatory mediators. Systemic s