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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The cardiovascular challenges in giraffes	41
Skeletal muscle: a biologists’ adventure playground	23
Cryo-electron tomography of intact cardiac muscle reveals myosin binding protein-C linking myosin and actin filaments	21
Plasticity in leukocyte migration during haematopoiesis and inflammation	18
Corilagin inhibits the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle and excessive matrix deposition following vascular injury via the MAPK pathway	15
Direct measurement of mavacamten and deoxyATP perturbation of the SRX/DRX ratio in porcine cardiac myofibrils using a simple, accessible and multiplexed approach	14
Theoretical treatment of tension transients in muscle following sudden changes in orthophosphate concentration: implications for energy transduction	14
Unraveling the bidirectional relationship between muscle inflammation and satellite cells activity: influencing factors and insights	13
Obituary: Professor John Michael Squire	13
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	13
Resistance-based exercise restores muscle health in dialysis patients	10
The role of ZBP1 in eccentric exercise-induced skeletal muscle necroptosis	9
IFRD2, a target of miR-2400, regulates myogenic differentiation of bovine skeletal muscle satellite cells via decreased phosphorylation of ERK1/2 proteins	9
Downhill running induced DNA damage enhances mitochondrial membrane permeability by facilitating ER-mitochondria signaling	9
Mammalian organ regeneration in spiny mice	7
Sympathetic innervation in skeletal muscle and its role at the neuromuscular junction	7
Skeletal muscle alterations in Marfan syndrome: a systematic review	7
Zebrafish as a model for cardiac disease; Cryo-EM structure of native cardiac thin filaments from Danio Rerio	6
Numb family proteins play roles in Desmin and Vimentin localization at the Z-disc	6
Danicamtiv affected isometric force and cross-bridge kinetics similarly in skinned myocardial strips from male and female rats	6
Extreme Physiology Extreme Tolerance to Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, and Pain in the Naked Mole-Rat	6
AMPK and glucose deprivation exert an isoform-specific effect on the expression of Na+,K+-ATPase subunits in cultured myotubes	6
Effects of membrane cholesterol-targeting chemicals on skeletal muscle contractions evoked by direct and indirect stimulation	6
Adaptations for extremely high muscular power output: why do muscles that operate at intermediate cycle frequencies generate the highest powers?	5
Molecular insights into titin’s A-band	5

Regulation of Autonomic Motility in Human Gastric Muscle and the Gastroepiploic Artery by Stretch and pH	5
Enduring effects of acute prenatal ischemia in rat soleus muscle, and protective role of erythropoietin	5
Arginine ingestion inhibits phagocyte invasion in eccentrically contracted rat fast-twitch muscle	5
Smooth muscle of the lower urinary tract: BK-RyR coupling in physiology and pathophysiology	4
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of endogenous fluorophores in health and disease	4
Optimizing 2D in vitro differentiation conditions for C2C12 murine myoblasts on gelatin hydrogel	4
The predominant stride-frequency for routine swimming in catsharks (Scyliorhinus canicula) generates high power at high efficiency in the red musculature	4
Tissue-specific isoform expression of GNE gene in human tissues	4
Mechanisms of eccentric contraction-induced muscle damage and nutritional supplementations for mitigating it	4
ANKRD1 expression is aberrantly upregulated in the mdm mouse model of muscular dystrophy and induced by stretch through NFκB	4
Progress and prospects in antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy	4
Stair-climbing resistance exercise, with or without oral turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) supplementation, relieves symptoms and promotes musculoskeletal repair in experimental rheumatoid arthritis in rats	4
Myosin assembly of smooth muscle: from ribbons and side polarity to a row polar helical model	4
Methylglyoxal reduces resistance exercise-induced protein synthesis and anabolic signaling in rat tibialis anterior muscle	3
Preservation of shortening velocity and power output in single muscle fibres from patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies	3
50 Years of the steric-blocking mechanism in vertebrate skeletal muscle: a retrospective	3
Four phases of a force transient emerge from a binary mechanical system	3
Virtually “muscling” in pandemic: first virtual European Muscle Conference (September 20–22, 2021)	3
The effects of exercise and mitochondrial transplantation alone or in combination against Doxorubicin-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	3
Insights into human muscle biology from human primary skeletal muscle cell culture	3
Participation and performance characteristics in half-marathon run: a brief narrative review	3
Influence of neuromuscular transmission and Na+ channel inhibitors on strength-duration relationship in isolated slow- and fast-twitch muscles	3
The use of acoustic myography to assess changes in muscle control with ageing in healthy subjects ranging 20 to 79 years	3
Polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) disturb skeleto-muscular energy metabolism and tissue architecture following sub-acute exposure: A dose-responsive study	3
TAM-associated CASQ1 mutants diminish intracellular Ca2+ content and interfere with regulation of SOCE	3
Short-duration electrical pulse stimulation induces myokines and mitochondrial adaptations in C2C12 myotubes	3
LncRNA Xist acts as a miR-486-5p sponge to modulate myoblast proliferation by recruiting Stk4	3
The vertebrate muscle superlattice: discovery, consequences, and link to geometric frustration	2
Residual force enhancement following hindlimb unloading and exercise prehabilitation	2
Inhibition of the ubiquitin-proteasome system reduces the abundance of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 in cultured myotubes	2
Crystallisation and characterisation of muscle proteins: a mini-review	2
A single S-ketamine injection enhances mTOR signaling in rat skeletal muscle	2
Urinary titin represents an exciting biomarker for assessment of muscle health	2
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	2
Determinants of maximal oxygen consumption	2
The cryo-EM 3D image reconstruction of isolated Lethocerus indicus Z-discs	2
The 50th anniversary of the European Society for Muscle Research: a journey through half a century of scientific advances	2
Characteristics of the right atrial and right ventricular contractility in a model of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension	2
Alterations of the skeletal muscle contractile apparatus in necrosis induced by myotoxic snake venom phospholipases A2: a mini-review	2