Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE

Amount

$616,281.00

Award Date

4/12/2010

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

The overall goal of this proposal is to determine how tiny microvesicles (so called exosomes) released from lung tumor cells promote an inflammator response, and growth of lung tumors. Our results showed that pretreatment of A/J mice with tiny microvesicl