Primary Recipient

EMORY UNIVERSITY

Amount

$100,001.00

Award Date

12/07/2009

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

Urea plays an important role in the urinary concentrating mechanisms. In the past decade, significant progress has been made in understanding urea reabsorption and recycling in kidney mediated by two facilitated urea transporter genes, UT-A and UT-B. Howe