Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Amount

$34,273.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

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 neurohypophysial hormones vasopressin (VP) and oxytocin (OT) are synthesized in the magnocellular neurons (MNCs) located within the paraventricular (PVN) and the supraoptic (SON) nuclei of the hypothalamus, and released from the neurohypophysis into t