Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Amount

$179,338.00

Award Date

1/29/2010

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

Endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) dysfunction may have a key role in the pathogenesis of DR. Two populations of EPCs that arise from cultured mononuclear cells (MNC) are the late outgrowth endothelial cells (OECs), which display a clonal phenotype and bel