Grant: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Primary Recipient
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Amount
$429,000.00
Award Date
7/17/2009
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
A large body of evidence suggests that ion channels act as force sensors in mechanotransduction systems. In flies, the No mechanoreceptor potential-C (Nomp-C) channel has been suggested to be a force transduction channel in neurons that detect bristle def