Video Clips of Professor Salvador Moncada on YouTube
Growing up in Central America
Medical school and expulsion from El Salvador
Starting work in John Vane’s laboratory, 1971
Prostaglandins and Aspirin – the importance of bioassay
Group leader at Wellcome Research Laboratory
Blood platelet function - why aspirin causes bleeding
Discovering thromboxane synthase, and a new enzyme
The Prostacyclin Discovery
Homeostatic functioning of the blood vessel wall
Structure of prostacyclin, 1976: Nobel Prize, 1982
Discovery of EDRF (Endothelium Derived Relaxing Factor), 1980
Discovering that EDRF is nitric oxide (NO), 1986
Measuring nitric oxide produced by endothelial cells
Determining how nitric oxide is made
The biochemical pathway of nitric oxide in the brain
Nobel Prize, 1998
Nitric oxide as regulator of blood pressure and blood flow
Nitric Oxide in pregnancy
Nitric oxide, erectile dysfunction and Viagra
Inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis and tissue damage
Septic shock
Mitochondria – nitric oxide as modulator of oxygen consumption
Mitochondria – new ideas about the way cells use energy sources
Wellcome’s important characteristics
