Description:
This book provides for the first time a comprehensive description and systematic look at all gasotransmitters, established or proposed, since their detection in 2002 for undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-doctoral fellows in biomedical disciplines and toxicology.
Brief description: Dr Rui Wang has been Vice-President of Research of Laurentian University since January of 2015. From 2004 to 2014, Dr Wang served as the Vice President of Research firstly, and then as Vice President of Research, Economic Development and Innovation at Lakehead University. Dr Wang came to Lakehead from the University of Saskatchewan, where he was a Professor of Physiology and leader of both the Cardiovascular Research Group and the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Network. Prior to that, Dr Wang was a Principal Investigator from 1995 to 2000 at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Maine, USA, and an Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal from 1993 to 1997. Dr Wang was trained in China as a medical doctor, and later received his PhD degree in 1990 from the University of Alberta. Dr Wang is an international leader in the study of the metabolism and physiological functions of a group of small molecules of gas, known as gasotransmitters