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April 29, 2010

Briski awarded NIH grant for women鈥檚 health study

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded $213,000 for a project headed by Dr. Karen Briski of the University of Louisiana at Monroe鈥檚 College of Pharmacy. The NIH鈥檚 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases provided the funding.

Briski鈥檚 project, 鈥淗indbrain Glucoprivic Regulation of the HPG Axis,鈥� seeks better understanding of women鈥檚 nutritional and reproductive health by studying the cellular processes in the brain that detect nutrient deficiencies. Because the control of reproduction and energy balance in females is linked, the study will investigate how neural pathways suppress reproduction during nutritional infertility, according to Briski.

鈥淚 hope to improve women鈥檚 health through new understanding of the brain鈥檚 capacity to monitor nutrient supplies and to utilize that information to regulate reproduction,鈥� said Briski. 鈥淚 am very appreciative of this sign of interest and support by the NIH for this research.鈥�

Briski serves as professor of pharmacology and neuroanatomy and basic pharmaceutical sciences department head at 蜜桔直播.

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