OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology is 35. 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
Compositional changes of the lung extracellular matrix in acute respiratory distress syndrome	286
Transient Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibition Confers Sex-Specific Protection Against Angiotensin II-Induced Cardiac Remodeling	104
Dysregulation of synaptic transcripts underlies network abnormalities in ALS patient-derived motor neurons	101
Role of TGF-β/SMAD/YAP/TAZ signaling in skeletal muscle fibrosis	88
Time-of-day effects on ex vivo muscle contractility following short-term satellite cell ablation	88
STIM1 and lipid interactions at ER-PM contact sites	84
The intersection of metformin and inflammation	73
Mitochondria-cytokine crosstalk following skeletal muscle injury and disuse: a mini-review	62
Recent Advances in Synthetic Notch Receptors for Biomedical Application	61
Activation of the alternative complement pathway modulates inflammation in thoracic aortic aneurysm/dissection	59
Abnormal purine metabolism in nasal epithelial cells affects allergic rhinitis by regulating Th17/Treg cells	59
Potential of synergist ablation to study mechanisms of skeletal muscle hypertrophy in rodent disease models	56
The molecular circadian clock of eosinophils: A potential therapeutic target for asthma	55
Exogenous ketone esters as a potential therapeutic for treatment of sarcopenic obesity	54
Modulating endothelial cell dynamics in fat grafting: the impact of DLL4 siRNA via adipose stem cell extracellular vesicles	52
Extracellular cysteines C226 and C232 mediate hydrogen sulfide-dependent inhibition of Orai3-mediated store-operated calcium entry	51
Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue: subtypes and morphological features affecting prognosis	49
Focal adhesions, reticular adhesions, flat clathrin lattices: what divides them, what unites them?	49
Does force depression resulting from shortening against series elasticity contribute to the activation dependence of optimum length?	49
dEREGulated pathways: unraveling the role of epiregulin in skin, kidney, and lung fibrosis	48
HOXA3 activates USP15 to suppress autophagy and promote M2-type macrophage polarization in renal cell carcinoma via facilitating the deubiquitination of SQSTM1	48
p300 maintains primordial follicle activation by repressing VEGFA transcription	45
METTL14 promotes ferroptosis in smooth muscle cells during thoracic aortic aneurysm by stabilizing the m⁶A modification of ACSL4	45
Hippo cell signaling and HS-proteoglycans regulate tissue form and function, age-dependent maturation, extracellular matrix remodeling, and repair	44
Rab7-regulated ferroptosis contributes to tubular epithelial cells injury by degradation of GPX4 via chaperone-mediated autophagy in AKI	44

O-GlcNAcylation regulates tyrosine hydroxylase serine 40 phosphorylation and l-DOPA levels	42
Body composition alterations in patients with lung cancer	41
Inflammation-induced PFKFB3-mediated glycolysis promoting myometrium contraction through the PI3K-Akt-mTOR pathway in preterm birth mice	41
Microbiota protect against frailty and loss of skeletal muscle, and maintain inflammatory tone during aging in mice	41
Lasmiditan Induces Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Primary Mouse Renal Peritubular Endothelial Cells and Augments Wound Healing and Tubular Network Formation	38
LncRNA GAS5 inhibits miR-579-3p to activate SIRT1/PGC-1α/Nrf2 signaling pathway to reduce cell pyroptosis in sepsis-associated renal injury	38
Immune system activation and cognitive impairment in arterial hypertension	36
METTL14 promotes fibroblast-like synoviocytes activation via the LASP1/SRC/AKT axis in rheumatoid arthritis	36
Skeletal dysplasia-causing mutations in TRPV4 alter the chondrocyte transcriptomic response to mechanical loading	35
Epigenetic regulation and targeting of ECM for cancer therapy	35
Biomimetic microsystems for cardiovascular studies	35