A new R21 to study basement membrane repair
NIAMS has awarded the Page-McCaw lab a new, 2-year R21 grant to study how basement membrane is repaired after damage. The lab has developed a new model of basement membrane injury, analyzing the basement membrane around the gut after feeding adult animals the noxious agent DSS. Graduate student Angela Howard is leading this work, and has documented significant damage after DSS feeding, and fast repair after it is withdrawn.