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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
2-D08 treatment regulates C2C12 myoblast proliferation and differentiation via the Erk1/2 and proteasome signaling pathways	17
The cardiovascular challenges in giraffes	14
Cryo-electron tomography of intact cardiac muscle reveals myosin binding protein-C linking myosin and actin filaments	11
Glutamine supplementation improves contractile function of regenerating soleus muscles from rats	9
Biomechanical evaluation of flash-frozen and cryo-sectioned papillary muscle samples by using sinusoidal analysis: cross-bridge kinetics and the effect of partial Ca2+ activation	9
Plasticity in leukocyte migration during haematopoiesis and inflammation	9
Obituary: Professor John Michael Squire	9
Unraveling the bidirectional relationship between muscle inflammation and satellite cells activity: influencing factors and insights	8
Treadmill running prevents atrophy differently in fast- versus slow-twitch muscles in a rat model of rheumatoid arthritis	8
The role of ZBP1 in eccentric exercise-induced skeletal muscle necroptosis	7
Downhill running induced DNA damage enhances mitochondrial membrane permeability by facilitating ER-mitochondria signaling	7
Zebrafish as a model for cardiac disease; Cryo-EM structure of native cardiac thin filaments from Danio Rerio	6
Mammalian organ regeneration in spiny mice	6
Danicamtiv affected isometric force and cross-bridge kinetics similarly in skinned myocardial strips from male and female rats	6
Sympathetic innervation in skeletal muscle and its role at the neuromuscular junction	6
Extreme Physiology Extreme Tolerance to Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, and Pain in the Naked Mole-Rat	6
Numb family proteins play roles in Desmin and Vimentin localization at the Z-disc	6
IFRD2, a target of miR-2400, regulates myogenic differentiation of bovine skeletal muscle satellite cells via decreased phosphorylation of ERK1/2 proteins	6
Effects of membrane cholesterol-targeting chemicals on skeletal muscle contractions evoked by direct and indirect stimulation	5
Progress and prospects in antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy	5
AMPK and glucose deprivation exert an isoform-specific effect on the expression of Na+,K+-ATPase subunits in cultured myotubes	5
Adaptations for extremely high muscular power output: why do muscles that operate at intermediate cycle frequencies generate the highest powers?	5
Arginine ingestion inhibits phagocyte invasion in eccentrically contracted rat fast-twitch muscle	5
Mechanisms of eccentric contraction-induced muscle damage and nutritional supplementations for mitigating it	4
Mfge8 attenuates human gastric antrum smooth muscle contractions	4

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of endogenous fluorophores in health and disease	4
Molecular insights into titin’s A-band	4
Tissue-specific isoform expression of GNE gene in human tissues	4
Enduring effects of acute prenatal ischemia in rat soleus muscle, and protective role of erythropoietin	4
TAM-associated CASQ1 mutants diminish intracellular Ca2+ content and interfere with regulation of SOCE	3
Mechanisms of weakness in Mdx muscle following in vivo eccentric contractions	3
50 Years of the steric-blocking mechanism in vertebrate skeletal muscle: a retrospective	3
ANKRD1 expression is aberrantly upregulated in the mdm mouse model of muscular dystrophy and induced by stretch through NFκB	3
The predominant stride-frequency for routine swimming in catsharks (Scyliorhinus canicula) generates high power at high efficiency in the red musculature	3
Four phases of a force transient emerge from a binary mechanical system	3
Myosin assembly of smooth muscle: from ribbons and side polarity to a row polar helical model	3
Virtually “muscling” in pandemic: first virtual European Muscle Conference (September 20–22, 2021)	2
Preservation of shortening velocity and power output in single muscle fibres from patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies	2
The cryo-EM 3D image reconstruction of isolated Lethocerus indicus Z-discs	2
Inhibition of the ubiquitin-proteasome system reduces the abundance of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 in cultured myotubes	2
Insights into human muscle biology from human primary skeletal muscle cell culture	2
The effects of exercise and mitochondrial transplantation alone or in combination against Doxorubicin-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	2
Efficacy of passive repetitive stretching of skeletal muscle on myofiber hypertrophy and genetic suppression on MAFbx, MuRF1, and myostatin	2
Participation and performance characteristics in half-marathon run: a brief narrative review	2
The vertebrate muscle superlattice: discovery, consequences, and link to geometric frustration	2
Methylglyoxal reduces resistance exercise-induced protein synthesis and anabolic signaling in rat tibialis anterior muscle	2