Primary Recipient

RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Amount

$160,791.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

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

Preliminary studies have led to the discovery that the redox modulatory site is part of a high affinity metal binding site site on the extracellular face of the Cav3.2 T-type channel. Endogeneous levels of trace metals are high enough to fill this site an