Primary Recipient

TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER RESEARCH

Amount

$14,650.00

Award Date

6/02/2009

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

Tooth development requires the precise spatial and temporal coordination of programs for cell growth, differentiation, and mineralization. In a search for genes required for normal tooth morphogenesis we have studied Dentin matrix protein1 (DMP1), a non-