Arthur E. Sowers

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Arthur E. Sowers is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arthur E. Sowers has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Biotechnology, 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Arthur E. Sowers's work include Microbial Inactivation Methods (22 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (18 papers) and Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (8 papers). Arthur E. Sowers is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Inactivation Methods (22 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (18 papers) and Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (8 papers). Arthur E. Sowers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Serbia. Arthur E. Sowers's co-authors include Carol A. Jordan, Eberhard Neumann, Dimiter S. Dimitrov, Michael R. Lieber, C R Hackenbrock, John J. Lemasters, Stephen F. Cleary, Mathias Hoechli, Kenneth A. Jacobson and Sachin A. Gupte and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Arthur E. Sowers

38 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Electroporation and Electrofusion in Cell Biology

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arthur E. Sowers United States	19	1.2k	970	672	398	243	39	1.9k
B. Gabriel France	18	890 0.8×	695 0.7×	378 0.6×	218 0.5×	90 0.4×	32	1.2k
Sergej Kakorin Germany	20	919 0.8×	898 0.9×	538 0.8×	234 0.6×	128 0.5×	38	1.5k
Maria Schaefer-Ridder Germany	11	1.3k 1.1×	864 0.9×	1.0k 1.6×	265 0.7×	134 0.6×	15	2.4k
Katja Tœnsing Germany	12	403 0.3×	409 0.4×	330 0.5×	89 0.2×	60 0.2×	18	825
Iana Tsoneva Bulgaria	15	396 0.3×	317 0.3×	291 0.4×	93 0.2×	45 0.2×	60	761
Kai F. Hoettges United Kingdom	21	166 0.1×	882 0.9×	197 0.3×	67 0.2×	342 1.4×	48	1.1k
Jack A. Lucy United Kingdom	18	109 0.1×	143 0.1×	608 0.9×	44 0.1×	30 0.1×	46	902
Kwan Yong Choi South Korea	24	216 0.2×	186 0.2×	1.1k 1.7×	16 0.0×	49 0.2×	57	1.8k
Naotaka Tanaka Japan	25	84 0.1×	210 0.2×	957 1.4×	15 0.0×	46 0.2×	67	1.4k
Tapas K. Mal Canada	21	57 0.0×	63 0.1×	1.4k 2.1×	90 0.2×	20 0.1×	35	1.9k

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Baumann, Martin & Arthur E. Sowers. (1996). A mechanical cycling phenomenon in electrofused erythrocytes. Molecular Membrane Biology. 13(2). 113–119. 5 indexed citations

Baumann, Martin & Arthur E. Sowers. (1996). Membrane skeleton involvement in cell fusion kinetics: a parameter that correlates with erythrocyte osmotic fragility. Biophysical Journal. 71(1). 336–340. 2 indexed citations

Sowers, Arthur E.. (1995). Membrane skeleton restraint of surface shape change during fusion of erythrocyte membranes: evidence from use of osmotic and dielectrophoretic microforces as probes. Biophysical Journal. 69(6). 2507–2516. 9 indexed citations

Foster, Kenneth R. & Arthur E. Sowers. (1995). Dielectrophoretic forces and potentials induced on pairs of cells in an electric field. Biophysical Journal. 69(3). 777–784. 29 indexed citations

Wu, Yi, R. A. Sjodin, & Arthur E. Sowers. (1994). Distinct mechanical relaxation components in pairs of erythrocyte ghosts undergoing fusion. Biophysical Journal. 66(1). 114–119. 14 indexed citations

Sowers, Arthur E., et al.. (1994). Surface shape change during fusion of erythrocyte membranes is sensitive to membrane skeleton agents. Biophysical Journal. 67(5). 1896–1905. 9 indexed citations

Sowers, Arthur E.. (1993). [15] Membrane electrofusion: A paradigm for study of membrane fusion mechanisms. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 220. 196–211. 19 indexed citations

Cleary, Stephen F., et al.. (1992). Charge and Field Effects in Biosystems—3. Birkhäuser Boston eBooks. 36 indexed citations

Chernomordik, Leonid & Arthur E. Sowers. (1991). Evidence that the spectrin network and a nonosmotic force control the fusion product morphology in electrofused erythrocyte ghosts. Biophysical Journal. 60(5). 1026–1037. 32 indexed citations

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Dimitrov, Dimiter S., et al.. (1990). Attraction, deformation and contact of membranes induced by low frequency electric fields. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1023(3). 389–397. 14 indexed citations

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Dimitrov, Dimiter S. & Arthur E. Sowers. (1990). A delay in membrane fusion: lag times observed by fluorescence microscopy of individual fusion events induced by an electric field pulse. Biochemistry. 29(36). 8337–8344. 32 indexed citations

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Dimitrov, Dimiter S. & Arthur E. Sowers. (1990). Membrane electroporaton — fast molecular exchange by electroosmosis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1022(3). 381–392. 116 indexed citations

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Sowers, Arthur E.. (1990). Low concentrations of macromolecular solutes significantly affect electrofusion yield in erythrocyte ghosts. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1025(2). 247–251. 12 indexed citations

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Sowers, Arthur E.. (1989). Electrofusion of dissimilar membrane fusion partners depends on additive contributions from each of the two different membranes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 985(3). 339–342. 10 indexed citations

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Sowers, Arthur E.. (1989). Evidence that electrofusion yield is controlled by biologically relevant membrane factors. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 985(3). 334–338. 10 indexed citations

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Sowers, Arthur E.. (1988). Fusion events and nonfusion contents mixing events induced in erythrocyte ghosts by an electric pulse. Biophysical Journal. 54(4). 619–626. 38 indexed citations

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Sowers, Arthur E.. (1987). The long-lived fusogenic state induced in erythrocyte ghosts by electric pulses is not laterally mobile. Biophysical Journal. 52(6). 1015–1020. 32 indexed citations

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Gupte, Sachin A., E. S. Wu, Mathias Hoechli, et al.. (1984). Relationship between lateral diffusion, collision frequency, and electron transfer of mitochondrial inner membrane oxidation-reduction components.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 81(9). 2606–2610. 130 indexed citations

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Sowers, Arthur E. & Charles R. Hackenbrock. (1981). Lateral Diffusion of Intramembrane Particles in a Biomembrane: Dependence of Rates on Intramembrane Particle Concentrations and Membrane Curvature. Proceedings annual meeting Electron Microscopy Society of America. 39. 560–561. 1 indexed citations

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Sowers, Arthur E. & C R Hackenbrock. (1981). Alterations in density and size distribution of intramembrane particles in the inner membrane of mitochondria from chloramphenicol-fed mice.. PubMed. 24(1). 101–7. 4 indexed citations

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