Primary Recipient

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

Amount

$293,700.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

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

Connexins are the proteins that form the gap-junction channels that mediate cell-to-cell permeation of ions and hydrophilic molecules, hence underlying electrical and chemical coupling between neighboring cells. Connexins are essential for embryonic devel