Primary Recipient

BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS

Amount

$254,810.00

Award Date

8/11/2010

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

Natural killer T cells are a unique subset of T lymphocytes that rapidly produce Th1 and Th2 cytokines, most notably IFN-y and IL-4. NK T cells are CD4+CD8 or double negative and are dependent on a non-classical, non-polymorphic MHC class l-like molecule,