Associate Professor, Medical Sciences Division
Lakehead University Campus
955 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay, Ontario
P7B 5E1
Email: rdeslauriers@nosm.ca
Education and Professional Roles
2013 – Present: Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute, administrative positions, including Chief Executive Officer, Scientific Director and Scientific Advisor, all of which involve the development of research at an institute level
1999 – 2012: Member of the management team and responsible for research and strategic programs at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Calgary and Halifax
1972 – 1999: Research Scientist at the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa and Winnipeg
1968 - 1972: PhD, Biochemistry, University of Ottawa
1964 - 1968: B.Sc., Biology, Laval University
Research Interest
Selected Publications
Over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications. (Complete list available upon request.)
Wang, L., Deng, J., Tian, W., Xiang, B., Yang, T., Li, G., Wang, J., Gruwel, M., Kashour, T., Rendell, J., Glogowski, M., Tomanek, B., Freed, D., Deslauriers, R., Arora, R.C. and Tian, G. Adipose-derived stem cells are an effective cell candidate for treatment of heart failure: an MR imaging study of rat hearts.
American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulation Physiology 297: H1020-H1031, 2009
Li, G., Dai, G., Xiang, B., Mark, J., Tomanek, B., Liu, H. and Deslauriers, R. Mapping myocardial viability using interleaved
T1-
T2* weighted imaging.
International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging 20: 135-143, 2004
Tian, G., Xiang, B., Dai, G., Li, G., Sun, J., Summers, R. and Deslauriers, R. Retrograde cardioplegia.
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 125: 872-880, 2003
Somorjai, R.L., Dolenko, B., Nikulin, A., Nickerson, P., Rush, D., Shaw, A., Glogowski, M., Rendell, J. and Deslauriers, R. Distinguishing normal from rejecting renal allografts: application of a three-stage classification strategy to MR and IR spectra of urine.
Vibrational Spectroscopy 28: 97-102, 2002
Tian, G., Xiang, B., Dai, G., Sun, J., Lindsay, W. and Deslauriers, R. Simultaneous antegrade/retrograde cardioplegia protects myocardium distal to a coronary occlusion: A study in isolated pig hearts.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 46: 773-780, 2001
Docherty, J.C., Yang, L., Pierce, G.N. and Deslauriers, R. Na
+-H
+ exchange inhibition at reperfusion is cardioprotective during myocardial ischemia-reperfusion;
31P NMR studies.
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 176: 257-264, 1997
Kupriyanov, V.V., St-Jean, M., Xiang, B., Butler, K.W. and Deslauriers, R. Protective effect of amiloride during hypothermic hyperkalemic preservation: A
31P NMR study in isolated pig hearts.
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 27: 2237-2248, 1995
Kupriyanov, V.V., Stewart, L.C., Xiang, B., Kwak, J. and Deslauriers, R. Pathways of Rb
+ influx and their relation to intracellular [Na
+] in the perfused rat heart: A
87Rb and
23Na NMR Study.
Circulation Research 76: 839-851, 1995
Lareau, S., Boyle, A., Deslauriers, R., Keon, W.J., Kroft, T. and Labow, R.S. Magnesium enhances function of postischaemic human myocardial tissue.
Cardiovascular Research 27: 1009-1014, 1993
Lareau, S., Labow, R.S., Mainwood, G.W., Moore, R., Keon, W.J. and Deslauriers, R. An NMR probe to study function and metabolism simultaneously in isolated human cardiac tissue.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 20: 312-318, 1991
Storey, K.B., Miceli, M., Butler, K.W., Smith, I.C.P. and Deslauriers, R.
31P-NMR studies of the freeze-tolerant larvae of the gall fly,
Eurosta solidaginis.
European Journal of Biochemistry 142: 591-595, 1984
Deslauriers, R., Ekiel, I., Kroft, T. and Smith, I.C.P. NMR studies of malaria.
31P nuclear magnetic resonance of blood from mice infected with
Plasmodium berghei.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 721: 449-457, 1982
Jarrell, H.C., Deslauriers, R., McGregor, W.H. and Smith, I.C.P. Interaction of opioid peptides with model membranes: a
13C NMR study of enkephalin binding to phosphatidyl serine.
Biochemistry 19: 385-390, 1980
Deslauriers, R., Leach, S.J., Maxfield, F.R., Minasian, E., McQuie, J.R., Meinwald, Y.C., Némethy, G., Pottle, M.S., Rae, I.D., Scheraga, H.A., Stimson, E.R. and Van Nispen, J.W.Cyclized depeptide model for a β-bend.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 76(6): 2512-2514, 1979
Deslauriers, R., Somorjai, R.L. and Ralston, E. Correlation between the x-ray structure of melanostatin and its conformation in solution.
Nature 266: 746-748, 1977
Deslauriers, R., Walter, R. and Smith, I.C.P. Long-range pH-dependent effects on the carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of oxytocin.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 71: 265-268, 1974
Walter, R., Prasad, K.U.M., Deslauriers, R. and Smith, I.C.P. Conformational studies of oxytocin, lysine vasopressin, arginine vasopressin, and arginine vasotocin by carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 70: 2086-2090, 1973
