Primary Recipient

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (INC)

Amount

$418,000.00

Award Date

6/19/2009

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

Interleukin 13 (IL-13) is a pleiotropic, anti-inflammatory cytokine produced mainly by activated Th2 T cells. We have recently cloned a naturally occurring mRNA splice variant of IL-13 in which the second exon is omitted (termed IL-13?E2). Our characteriz