Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Amount

$631,198.00

Award Date

9/14/2009

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 purpose of this proposal is to examine the role of internal Ca2+ stores in neurohypophyseal nerve terminals of magnocellular hypothalamic neurons found in the posterior pituitary. These terminals secrete Oxytocin or Arginine Vasopressin, which have w