Primary Recipient

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Amount

$173,824.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tooth eruption requires alveolar bone resorption and bone formation. We have shown that the osteoclastogenesis needed for resorption of alveolar bone in the coronal region of the bony crypt is regulated by expression o