Primary Recipient

CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

Amount

$53,830.00

Award Date

8/04/2009

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

The liver develops from cells of the ventral foregut endoderm which differentiate into heptoblasts and proliferate into the adjacent mesenchyme to form the liver bud. Most of these cells mature into hepatocytes, but some of those surrounding the portal v