NYU Dentistry Awarded Grant to Study Stroke, Heart Attack
New York University College of Dentistry (NYU) has received a 5-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.
New York University College of Dentistry (NYU) has received a 5-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study mitochondrial permeability transition, one cause of tissue damage during stroke and heart attack.
Under the grant, Evgeny Pavlov, PhD, associate professor of molecular pathobiology at NYU College of Dentistry will continue her work on mitochondrial permeability transition — a sudden, stress-induced changed in the inner membrane of the mitochondria. The process is involved in a range of diseases ranging from heart attack to neurodegeneration.
Pavlov will use several methods to measure mitochondrial permeability transition and tissue to damage at the organism, cell, and mitochondrial levels and will couple these methods with electrophysiological tests to measure mitochondrial permeability transition at the level of mitochondrial membranes, according to the college.
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