Primary Recipient

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$694,815.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

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

NMDA receptors (NMDARs) are one of two major types of ion channels located in the postsynaptic membrane at the vast majority of excitatory synapses in the CNS. They not only mediate excitation but, because of their permeability to calcium, raise intracell