Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Amount

$424,875.00

Award Date

5/01/2009

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 morphology of a dental crown is controlled by a strictly regulated spatio-temporal expression of ameloblast specific genes encoding for enamel matrix proteins. Once ameloblasts enter the differentiation stage along the dentino-enamel junction (DEJ) an