Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Amount

$243,750.00

Award Date

9/24/2009

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

The long-term goal of the parent grant is to determine the structural and functional determinants of paracellular permeation in epithelia. We previously developed a model using inducible overexpression of claudin-2 in MDCK I cells to study the properties