Primary Recipient

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Amount

$8,342.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

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

This research seeks to determine the role that extracellular matrix (ECM) plays in the aging of skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle tissue is maintained via the regenerative capacity of the tissue's resident stem/progenitor cells known as satellite cells or