Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$156,820.00

Award Date

5/04/2010

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

The overall objective is to define the Ca2+-dependent signaling pathway in hypothalamic neurons that regulates appetite and body weight to provide novel insights to human obesity. AMPK, originally discovered to protect cells against stresses that deplete