Grant: MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Primary Recipient
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Amount
$140,131.00
Award Date
8/17/2009
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 higher vertebrates, nerve conduction is greatly facilitated by myelin, a lipid-rich membrane that wraps around the axon. Myelin is formed by oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS) and by Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system (PN