Primary Recipient

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Amount

$222,000.00

Award Date

7/05/2010

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 purpose of the project is to determine how astrocytic leptin receptor (ObR) is involved in leptin transport from blood to the brain and how it is involved in neuronal leptin signaling in the context of adult-onset obesity. During the first quarter,