Lasantha Gunasekara

Pulmonary surfactant function is abolished by an elevated proportion of cholesterol

Lasantha Gunasekara, Samuel Schürch, W. Michael Schoel et al. · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids · 2005 · 122 citations

Pulmonary Surfactant, Lung Deposition, Pulmonary Surfactant Function +11

An Elevated Level of Cholesterol Impairs Self-Assembly of Pulmonary Surfactant into a Functional Film

Zoya Leonenko, Simardeep Gill, Svetlana Baoukina et al. · Biophysical Journal · 2007 · 99 citations · Full text

Functional Film, Pulmonary Surfactant, Elevated Level +8

Role of cholesterol in the biophysical dysfunction of surfactant in ventilator-induced lung injury

Dan Vockeroth, Lasantha Gunasekara, Matthias Amrein et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology · 2009 · 81 citations

A comparative study of mechanisms of surfactant inhibition

Lasantha Gunasekara, W. Michael Schoel, Samuel Schürch et al. · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes · 2007 · 66 citations

Pulmonary Surfactant, Medicine, Surfactants +6

Pulmonary surfactant dysfunction in pediatric cystic fibrosis: Mechanisms and reversal with a lipid-sequestering drug

Lasantha Gunasekara, Mustafa Al-Saiedy, Francis Green et al. · Journal of Cystic Fibrosis · 2017 · 33 citations · Full text

Pulmonary Surfactant, Lipid-sequestering Drug, Medicine +10