Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$100,000.00

Award Date

8/24/2009

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

In examining the effect of vitamin C or ascorbic acid on endothelial function as part of DK050435, we made the surprising discovery that ascorbate traverses the endothelial barrier not through the cells, as expected, but around the cells in a para cellula