Primary Recipient

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$345,644.00

Award Date

9/22/2009

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 proposal explores consequences of chronic alcohol (ethanol; EtOH) exposure and withdrawal on sex- specific astrocyte activation, expression and function. Chronic EtOH abuse is associated with neurotoxicity and reactive astrogliosis, but the mechanism