OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of gender and obesity in modulating cross-bridge function in cardiac muscle fibers	15
AMPK and glucose deprivation exert an isoform-specific effect on the expression of Na+,K+-ATPase subunits in cultured myotubes	12
Correction: Extreme Physiology Extreme Tolerance to Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, and Pain in the Naked Mole-Rat	10
Elevated mir-145-5p is associated with skeletal muscle dysfunction and triggers apoptotic cell death in C2C12 myotubes	7
Activation of YAP regulates muscle fiber size in a PKC-dependent mechanism during chick in vitro myogenesis	7
The 50th anniversary of the European Society for Muscle Research: a journey through half a century of scientific advances	7
2-D08 treatment regulates C2C12 myoblast proliferation and differentiation via the Erk1/2 and proteasome signaling pathways	7
Effects of membrane cholesterol-targeting chemicals on skeletal muscle contractions evoked by direct and indirect stimulation	7
Efficacy of passive repetitive stretching of skeletal muscle on myofiber hypertrophy and genetic suppression on MAFbx, MuRF1, and myostatin	7
Cryo-electron tomography of intact cardiac muscle reveals myosin binding protein-C linking myosin and actin filaments	6
Lessons learned from comparative and extreme physiology	6
Calcium and strontium contractile activation properties of single skinned skeletal muscle fibres from elderly women 66–90 years of age	6
50 Years of the steric-blocking mechanism in vertebrate skeletal muscle: a retrospective	6
John Squire and the myosin thick filament structure in muscle	6
Six weeks of high-load resistance and low-load blood flow restricted training increase Na/K-ATPase sub-units α2 and β1 equally, but does not alter ClC-1 abundance in untrained human skeletal muscle	6
The cardiovascular challenges in giraffes	5
The predominant stride-frequency for routine swimming in catsharks (Scyliorhinus canicula) generates high power at high efficiency in the red musculature	4
Participation and performance characteristics in half-marathon run: a brief narrative review	4
Alterations of the skeletal muscle contractile apparatus in necrosis induced by myotoxic snake venom phospholipases A2: a mini-review	4
Extreme Physiology Extreme Tolerance to Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, and Pain in the Naked Mole-Rat	4
Four phases of a force transient emerge from a binary mechanical system	4
TAM-associated CASQ1 mutants diminish intracellular Ca2+ content and interfere with regulation of SOCE	4
Skeletal muscle of young females under resistance exercise exhibits a unique innate immune cell infiltration profile compared to males and elderly individuals	4
Muscle spindle receptors and their impact on Parkinson´s disease and Cerebral Palsy subjects	3
Organisational alteration of cardiac myofilament proteins by hyperglycaemia in mouse embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes	3

Bioinformatics analysis of paravertebral muscles atrophy in adult degenerative scoliosis	3
John squire and endothelial glycocalyx structure: an unfinished story	3
Xenogeneic transplantation of mitochondria induces muscle regeneration in an in vivo rat model of dexamethasone-induced atrophy	3
Rbm24-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of skeletal and cardiac muscle development, function and regeneration	3
Adaptations for extremely high muscular power output: why do muscles that operate at intermediate cycle frequencies generate the highest powers?	3
Arginine ingestion inhibits phagocyte invasion in eccentrically contracted rat fast-twitch muscle	3
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay promote C2C12 cell proliferation by targeting PIK3R5	3
The influences of ARHGEF9 on myoblasts migration and differentiation	3
Preservation of shortening velocity and power output in single muscle fibres from patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies	3
Plasticity in leukocyte migration during haematopoiesis and inflammation	3
Virtually “muscling” in pandemic: first virtual European Muscle Conference (September 20–22, 2021)	2
Effect of eccentric and concentric contraction mode on myogenic regulatory factors expression in human vastus lateralis muscle	2
Glutamine supplementation improves contractile function of regenerating soleus muscles from rats	2
Obituary: Professor John Michael Squire	2
Progress and prospects in antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy	2
Determinants of maximal oxygen consumption	2
Crystallisation and characterisation of muscle proteins: a mini-review	2
Mandibular muscle troponin of the Florida carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus: extending our insights into invertebrate Ca2+ regulation	2
Enduring effects of acute prenatal ischemia in rat soleus muscle, and protective role of erythropoietin	2
Molecular insights into titin’s A-band	2
Characteristics of the right atrial and right ventricular contractility in a model of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension	2