Primary Recipient

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$617,042.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

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

In the heart, a major sensor of the metabolic state, and hence a potentially major player in ischemia, is the ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel, which links metabolic state to electrical excitability. This project seeks to understand the molecular ba