Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$900,266.00

Award Date

8/25/2009

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

The Hepatoprotective Role of the Orphan Nuclear Receptor LXR The liver X receptors (LXRs) are transcriptional factors highly expressed in the liver. The goal of this study is to determine whether LXRs play a hepatoprotective role in preventing toxicity f