Patrick R. Sears

1.3k total citations
26 papers, 739 citations indexed

About

Patrick R. Sears is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick R. Sears has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 739 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 9 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Patrick R. Sears's work include Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (15 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (9 papers) and Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (6 papers). Patrick R. Sears is often cited by papers focused on Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (15 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (9 papers) and Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (6 papers). Patrick R. Sears collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Patrick R. Sears's co-authors include Pierre E. Dupont, Lawrence E. Ostrowski, Weining Yin, C. William Davis, Patrick F. Dillon, Michael R. Knowles, Ximena M. Bustamante-Marin, Maimoona A. Zariwala, Amy L. Oldenburg and Kristin Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Patrick R. Sears

25 papers receiving 727 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick R. Sears United States 16 327 224 157 138 131 26 739
Suresh Ramasamy United States 11 73 0.2× 99 0.4× 175 1.1× 40 0.3× 29 0.2× 19 390
Yiming Ji China 18 275 0.8× 118 0.5× 130 0.8× 26 0.2× 23 0.2× 59 815
Kohji Masuda Japan 21 631 1.9× 70 0.3× 128 0.8× 49 0.4× 20 0.2× 133 1.4k
Christopher L. Lee United States 10 148 0.5× 30 0.1× 169 1.1× 205 1.5× 213 1.6× 29 1.0k
Eiji Mori Japan 18 197 0.6× 62 0.3× 223 1.4× 125 0.9× 8 0.1× 55 1.1k
Steve Charles United States 21 94 0.3× 34 0.2× 126 0.8× 34 0.2× 23 0.2× 63 1.2k
Xin Luo China 14 144 0.4× 24 0.1× 79 0.5× 122 0.9× 20 0.2× 72 533
Keigo Kobayashi Japan 17 98 0.3× 190 0.8× 98 0.6× 175 1.3× 4 0.0× 67 706
Ningbo Chen China 17 567 1.7× 50 0.2× 125 0.8× 40 0.3× 49 0.4× 33 783
Jun Okamoto Japan 13 250 0.8× 49 0.2× 32 0.2× 38 0.3× 7 0.1× 64 531

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Amanda, Patrick R. Sears, M. Hennig, et al.. (2025). Lipid nanoparticle-encapsulated Dnai1 mRNA rescues ciliary activity in primary ciliary dyskinesia mouse cell models. Journal of Cell Science. 138(20).
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Tsuruta, James K., Patrick R. Sears, Meghan E. Rebuli, et al.. (2024). Development of an inhalable contrast agent targeting the respiratory tract mucus layer for pulmonary ultrasonic imaging. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29840–29840. 2 indexed citations
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Sears, Patrick R. & Lawrence E. Ostrowski. (2023). Mucociliary Transport Device Construction and Application to Study Mucociliary Clearance. Methods in molecular biology. 2725. 263–276. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Amanda, Ximena M. Bustamante-Marin, Weining Yin, et al.. (2022). The role of SPAG1 in the assembly of axonemal dyneins in human airway epithelia. Journal of Cell Science. 135(6). 9 indexed citations
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Ostrowski, Lawrence E., Weining Yin, Amanda Smith, et al.. (2022). Expression of a Truncated Form of ODAD1 Associated with an Unusually Mild Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Phenotype. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(3). 1753–1753. 4 indexed citations
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Sears, Patrick R., Ximena M. Bustamante-Marin, Matthew R. Markovetz, et al.. (2021). Induction of ciliary orientation by matrix patterning and characterization of mucociliary transport. Biophysical Journal. 120(8). 1387–1395. 15 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yanhe, Jianfeng Lin, Weining Yin, et al.. (2021). Structural insights into the cause of human RSPH4A primary ciliary dyskinesia. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 32(12). 1202–1209. 11 indexed citations
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Sears, Patrick R., Troy D. Rogers, Kim Burns, et al.. (2021). Mice with a deletion of Rsph1 exhibit a low level of mucociliary clearance and develop a primary ciliary dyskinesia phenotype. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations
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Bustamante-Marin, Ximena M., Amjad Horani, Wu‐Lin Charng, et al.. (2020). Mutation of CFAP57, a protein required for the asymmetric targeting of a subset of inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas, causes primary ciliary dyskinesia. PLoS Genetics. 16(8). e1008691–e1008691. 28 indexed citations
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Yin, Weining, Alessandra Livraghi-Butrico, Patrick R. Sears, et al.. (2019). Mice with a Deletion of Rsph1 Exhibit a Low Level of Mucociliary Clearance and Develop a Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Phenotype. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 61(3). 312–321. 15 indexed citations
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Bustamante-Marin, Ximena M., Weining Yin, Patrick R. Sears, et al.. (2019). Lack of GAS2L2 Causes PCD by Impairing Cilia Orientation and Mucociliary Clearance. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(2). 229–245. 61 indexed citations
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Bustamante-Marin, Ximena M., Adam J. Shapiro, Patrick R. Sears, et al.. (2019). Identification of genetic variants in CFAP221 as a cause of primary ciliary dyskinesia. Journal of Human Genetics. 65(2). 175–180. 30 indexed citations
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Blackmon, Richard L., Patrick R. Sears, David B. Hill, et al.. (2017). Direct monitoring of pulmonary disease treatment biomarkers using plasmonic gold nanorods with diffusion-sensitive OCT. Nanoscale. 9(15). 4907–4917. 16 indexed citations
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Blackmon, Richard L., Silvia M. Kreda, Patrick R. Sears, et al.. (2016). Diffusion-sensitive optical coherence tomography for real-time monitoring of mucus thinning treatments. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9697. 969724–969724. 5 indexed citations
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Teves, María E., Patrick R. Sears, Wei Li, et al.. (2014). Sperm-Associated Antigen 6 (SPAG6) Deficiency and Defects in Ciliogenesis and Cilia Function: Polarity, Density, and Beat. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e107271–e107271. 39 indexed citations
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Sears, Patrick R. & Pierre E. Dupont. (2007). Inverse Kinematics of Concentric Tube Steerable Needles. PubMed. 1887–1892. 61 indexed citations
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Sears, Patrick R. & Pierre E. Dupont. (2006). A Steerable Needle Technology Using Curved Concentric Tubes. 2850–2856. 206 indexed citations
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Sears, Patrick R., et al.. (2004). Ca2+ dependency of ‘Ca2+‐independent’ exocytosis in SPOC1 airway goblet cells. The Journal of Physiology. 559(2). 555–565. 28 indexed citations
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Dillon, Patrick F., Robert Root‐Bernstein, Patrick R. Sears, & L. Karl Olson. (2000). Natural Electrophoresis of Norepinephrine and Ascorbic Acid. Biophysical Journal. 79(1). 370–376. 18 indexed citations
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Dillon, Patrick F., et al.. (1995). Creatine kinase increases the solubility and enzymatic activity of pyruvate kinase by means of diazymatic coupling. Journal of Biological Physics. 21(1). 11–23. 4 indexed citations

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