Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM

Amount

$390,244.00

Award Date

9/08/2009

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

Alcohol abuse is one of the most common cause of liver fibrosis/cirrhosis in western developed countries. Alcoholic liver fibrosis is caused by the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) in the liver. Type I collagen is the major component o