Menake E Piyasena
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Recent Articles
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Hossain S, Pai K, Piyasena M
ACS Biomater Sci Eng
. 2021 Jan;
6(4):1989-1997.
PMID: 33455318
Phospholipase A (PLA) is a membrane lytic enzyme that is present in many organisms. Human PLA has emerged as a potential biomarker as well as a therapeutic target for several...
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Ellepola N, Ogas T, Turner D, Gurung R, Maldonado-Torres S, Tello-Aburto R, et al.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
. 2019 Nov;
188:109892.
PMID: 31732272
Increasing quantities of pharmaceutical waste in the environment have disrupted the balance of ecosystems, and may have subsequent effects on human health. Although a handful of previous studies have shown...
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Gautam G, Gurung R, Fencl F, Piyasena M
Anal Bioanal Chem
. 2018 Jul;
410(25):6561-6571.
PMID: 30046870
Acoustophoresis has gained increasing attention as a gentle, non-contact, and high-throughput cell and particle separation technique. It is conveniently used to isolate and enrich particles that are greater than 2 ...
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Gautam G, Burger T, Wilcox A, Cumbo M, Graves S, Piyasena M
Anal Bioanal Chem
. 2018 Apr;
410(14):3385-3394.
PMID: 29651523
We introduce a new method to construct microfluidic devices especially useful for bulk acoustic wave (BAW)-based manipulation of cells and microparticles. To obtain efficient acoustic focusing, BAW devices require materials...
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Piyasena M, Graves S
Lab Chip
. 2014 Feb;
14(6):1044-59.
PMID: 24488050
A modern flow cytometer can analyze and sort particles on a one by one basis at rates of 50,000 particles per second. Flow cytometers can also measure as many as...
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Cushing K, Piyasena M, Carroll N, Maestas G, Lopez B, Edwards B, et al.
Anal Chem
. 2013 Jan;
85(4):2208-15.
PMID: 23331264
This report describes the development of elastomeric capture microparticles (ECμPs) and their use with acoustophoretic separation to perform microparticle assays via flow cytometry.We have developed simple methods to form ECμPs...
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Austin Suthanthiraraj P, Piyasena M, Woods T, Naivar M, Lopez G, Graves S
Methods
. 2012 Apr;
57(3):259-71.
PMID: 22465280
Flow cytometry has become a powerful analytical tool for applications ranging from blood diagnostics to high throughput screening of molecular assemblies on microsphere arrays. However, instrument size, expense, throughput, and...
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Piyasena M, Austin Suthanthiraraj P, Applegate Jr R, Goumas A, Woods T, Lopez G, et al.
Anal Chem
. 2012 Jan;
84(4):1831-9.
PMID: 22239072
Flow cytometry can simultaneously measure and analyze multiple properties of single cells or particles with high sensitivity and precision. Yet, conventional flow cytometers have fundamental limitations with regards to analyzing...
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Piyasena M, Zeineldin R, Fenton K, Buranda T, Lopez G
Biointerphases
. 2010 Apr;
3(2):38.
PMID: 20408688
The authors describe a biosensing concept based on the release of compounds, which are encapsulated within lipid-coated porous silica microspheres, by detergents and toxins that disrupt supported lipid bilayers (SLBs)...
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Piyasena M, Real L, Diamond R, Xu H, Gomez F
Anal Bioanal Chem
. 2008 Aug;
392(5):877-86.
PMID: 18712518
Teicoplanin (teic) from Actinoplanes teichomyceticus is a glycopeptide antibiotic used to treat many gram-positive bacterial infections. Glycopeptide antibiotics inhibit bacterial growth by binding to carboxy-terminal D-Ala-D-Ala intermediates in the peptidoglycan...