Primary Recipient

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

Amount

$421,333.00

Award Date

7/22/2009

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

G8pos skeletal muscle stem/progenitor cells may provide the source of ?-smooth muscle actin positive myofibroblasts detected in lens fibrotic diseases. We hypothesize that disruption of the G8pos epiblast-skeletal muscle stem cell niche, such that could