Primary Recipient

TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER RESEARCH

Amount

$157,837.00

Award Date

2/18/2010

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

Retinoic acid (RA), the active metabolite of vitamin A, is an important regulator of cell proliferation, embryonic/fetal development, and adult homeostasis. Mice that are deficient for Raldh2, an enzyme critically involved in the synthesis of RA from reti