OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The cardiovascular challenges in giraffes	23
Skeletal muscle: a biologists’ adventure playground	16
Cryo-electron tomography of intact cardiac muscle reveals myosin binding protein-C linking myosin and actin filaments	12
Plasticity in leukocyte migration during haematopoiesis and inflammation	10
Treadmill running prevents atrophy differently in fast- versus slow-twitch muscles in a rat model of rheumatoid arthritis	9
Glutamine supplementation improves contractile function of regenerating soleus muscles from rats	9
Unraveling the bidirectional relationship between muscle inflammation and satellite cells activity: influencing factors and insights	9
Theoretical treatment of tension transients in muscle following sudden changes in orthophosphate concentration: implications for energy transduction	9
Obituary: Professor John Michael Squire	9
The role of ZBP1 in eccentric exercise-induced skeletal muscle necroptosis	8
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	8
Extreme Physiology Extreme Tolerance to Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, and Pain in the Naked Mole-Rat	6
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
AMPK and glucose deprivation exert an isoform-specific effect on the expression of Na+,K+-ATPase subunits in cultured myotubes	6
IFRD2, a target of miR-2400, regulates myogenic differentiation of bovine skeletal muscle satellite cells via decreased phosphorylation of ERK1/2 proteins	6
Sympathetic innervation in skeletal muscle and its role at the neuromuscular junction	6
Effects of membrane cholesterol-targeting chemicals on skeletal muscle contractions evoked by direct and indirect stimulation	6
Downhill running induced DNA damage enhances mitochondrial membrane permeability by facilitating ER-mitochondria signaling	6
Numb family proteins play roles in Desmin and Vimentin localization at the Z-disc	6
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
Enduring effects of acute prenatal ischemia in rat soleus muscle, and protective role of erythropoietin	5
Molecular insights into titin’s A-band	4

Tissue-specific isoform expression of GNE gene in human tissues	4
Insights into human muscle biology from human primary skeletal muscle cell culture	4
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of endogenous fluorophores in health and disease	4
Myosin assembly of smooth muscle: from ribbons and side polarity to a row polar helical model	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
Mechanisms of eccentric contraction-induced muscle damage and nutritional supplementations for mitigating it	4
Mechanisms of weakness in Mdx muscle following in vivo eccentric contractions	4
TAM-associated CASQ1 mutants diminish intracellular Ca2+ content and interfere with regulation of SOCE	3
Participation and performance characteristics in half-marathon run: a brief narrative review	3
Four phases of a force transient emerge from a binary mechanical system	3
The predominant stride-frequency for routine swimming in catsharks (Scyliorhinus canicula) generates high power at high efficiency in the red musculature	3
Preservation of shortening velocity and power output in single muscle fibres from patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies	2
Methylglyoxal reduces resistance exercise-induced protein synthesis and anabolic signaling in rat tibialis anterior muscle	2
The cryo-EM 3D image reconstruction of isolated Lethocerus indicus Z-discs	2
Influence of neuromuscular transmission and Na+ channel inhibitors on strength-duration relationship in isolated slow- and fast-twitch muscles	2
The effects of exercise and mitochondrial transplantation alone or in combination against Doxorubicin-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	2
50 Years of the steric-blocking mechanism in vertebrate skeletal muscle: a retrospective	2
Virtually “muscling” in pandemic: first virtual European Muscle Conference (September 20–22, 2021)	2
Inhibition of the ubiquitin-proteasome system reduces the abundance of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 in cultured myotubes	2
Calcium and strontium contractile activation properties of single skinned skeletal muscle fibres from elderly women 66–90 years of age	1
The vertebrate muscle superlattice: discovery, consequences, and link to geometric frustration	1
Alterations of the skeletal muscle contractile apparatus in necrosis induced by myotoxic snake venom phospholipases A2: a mini-review	1
The role of MEGF10 in myoblast fusion and hypertrophic response to overload of skeletal muscle	1
The effect of muscle length on post-tetanic potentiation of C57BL/6 and skMLCK−/− mouse EDL muscles	1
Utility of the burmese Python as a model for studying plasticity of extreme physiological systems	1
Lessons learned from comparative and extreme physiology	1
Determinants of maximal oxygen consumption	1
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	1
Crystallisation and characterisation of muscle proteins: a mini-review	1
Efficacy of passive repetitive stretching of skeletal muscle on myofiber hypertrophy and genetic suppression on MAFbx, MuRF1, and myostatin	1
Protective effect of Luffa cylindrica Roemer against dexamethasone-induced muscle atrophy in primary rat skeletal muscle cells	1
John Squire: a leader and seminal contributor to experimental and theoretical muscle research for over 50 years	1
Residual force enhancement following hindlimb unloading and exercise prehabilitation	1
The 50th anniversary of the European Society for Muscle Research: a journey through half a century of scientific advances	1
Characteristics of the right atrial and right ventricular contractility in a model of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension	1
Recent studies of the molecular mechanism of lusitropy due to phosphorylation of cardiac troponin I by protein kinase A	1
Validation of a novel western blot assay to monitor patterns and levels of alpha dystroglycan in skeletal muscle of patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophies	1