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  1. Improved Delivery of Caffeic Acid through Liposomal Encapsulation

    Article • Journal of Nanomaterials, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  2. Natural Carriers for siRNA Delivery

    Article • Current Pharmaceutical Design, October 2015, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  3. Use of chickpea protein for encapsulation of folate to enhance nutritional potency and stability

    Article • Food and Bioproducts Processing, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  4. Antioxidant activity and a new butanolide from the primitive endemic genus Hortonia

    Article • Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, September 2014, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  5. Serum Stability and Physicochemical Characterization of a Novel Amphipathic Peptide C6M1 for SiRNA Delivery

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2014, PLOS

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  6. Potent bioactivities of the endemic Annonaceae heightens its dire conservation status

    Article • Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, December 2013, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  7. Chemical and functional properties of fibre concentrates obtained from by-products of coconut kernel

    Article • Food Chemistry, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  8. Modification of a Designed Amphipathic Cell-Penetrating Peptide and Its Effect on Solubility, Secondary Structure, and Uptake Efficiency

    Article • Biochemistry, May 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  9. The Complex World of Polysaccharides

    Article • October 2012, IntechOpen

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  10. Lichen Polysaccharides

    Article • October 2012, IntechOpen

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  11. Intelligent Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Therapy

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  12. Use of fluorescent probes to monitor the efflux transporters P-Glycoprotein and MRP1 in Bewo cells

    Article • Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, October 2011, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  13. Nanotechnology in medicine

    Article • Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, June 2010, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  14. Alkaloids from Xylopia parvifolia and Xylopia nigricans (Annonaceae)

    Article • Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, March 2010, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  15. Effects of caffeine and a tea flavanoid on Monacrosporium ambrosium, ectosymbiote of shot-hole borer beetle of tea

    Article • Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, December 2009, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  16. Antioxidant Constituents fromXylopia championii.

    Article • Pharmaceutical Biology, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  17. Role of P-glycoprotein in transplacental transfer of methadone

    Article • Biochemical Pharmacology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  18. Cell Culture Models for Drug Transport Studies

    Article • May 2005, Wiley

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  19. Uptake Studies for Evaluating Activity of Efflux Transporters in a Cell Line Representative of the Blood-Brain Barrier

    Article • February 2004, Wiley

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  20. Chapter 12 Molecular organization and structural role of outer membrane macromolecules

    Article • January 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  21. Synthesis of bulky .beta.-lactams for inhibition of cell surface .beta.-lactamase activity

    Article • Bioconjugate Chemistry, November 1993, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Robert E Hancock, Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  22. Escherichia coli serotype K44: An acidic capsular polysaccharide containing two 2-acetamido-2-deoxyhexoses

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, November 1988, Elsevier

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  23. Novel oligosaccharides obtained by bacteriophage degradation of the polysaccharide from Klebsiella serotype K26

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, December 1985, Elsevier

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne

  24. Étude d'un polyoside de Bacillus megaterium

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, August 1983, Elsevier

    Professor Desiree Nedra Karunaratne