OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 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
BDNF-modified human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells-derived dopaminergic-like neurons improve rotation behavior of Parkinson's disease rats through neuroprotection and anti-neuroinflammation	76
Logistics of neuronal protein turnover: Numbers and mechanisms	44
Artesunate restores the levels of inhibitory synapse proteins and reduces amyloid-β and C-terminal fragments (CTFs) of the amyloid precursor protein in an AD-mouse model	33
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Impaired hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive performance in adult DBC1-knock out mice	23
Golgi stress induces upregulation of the ER-Golgi SNARE Syntaxin-5, altered βAPP processing, and Caspase-3-dependent apoptosis in NG108-15 cells	21
Recovery of motor function is associated with rescue of glutamate biomarkers in the striatum and motor cortex following treatment with Mucuna pruriens in a murine model of Parkinsons disease	20
Kinetic monitoring of neuronal stress response to proteostasis dysfunction	19
Special issue: Synaptic logistics — Maintenance of synaptic composition, properties and function	19
Immunomodulatory protein from ganoderma microsporum protects against oxidative damages and cognitive impairments after traumatic brain injury	19
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The Tardigrade damage suppressor protein Dsup promotes DNA damage in neurons	18
The interaction between intestinal bacterial metabolites and phosphatase and tensin homolog in autism spectrum disorder	18
Disease modifying effects of the amyloid-beta protofibril-selective antibody mAb158 in aged Tg2576 transgenic mice	18
The exocyst subunit Sec15 is critical for proper synaptic development and function at the Drosophila NMJ	18
Possible involvement of progranulin in the protective effect of elastase inhibitor on cerebral ischemic injuries of neuronal and glial cells	18
Recovery of Angelman syndrome rat deficits with UBE3A protein supplementation	16
Taurine inhibits KDM3a production and microglia activation in lipopolysaccharide-treated mice and BV-2 cells	16
Expanded polyQ aggregates interact with sarco-endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase and Drosophila inhibitor of apoptosis protein1 to regulate polyQ mediated neurodegeneration in Drosophila	16
Identifying targets to prevent aminoglycoside ototoxicity	16
Turnover of synaptic adhesion molecules	15
Cannabinoid receptor 2 agonist AM1241 alleviates epileptic seizures and epilepsy-associated depression via inhibiting neuroinflammation in a pilocarpine-induced chronic epilepsy mouse model	15
Knockdown of BMP7 induced oligodendrocyte apoptosis, demyelination and motor function loss	15
Chemical tools for the opioids	15

Role of ALS-associated OPTN-K489E mutation in neuronal cell-death regulation	15
The mRNA expression profile of glycine receptor subunits alpha 1, alpha 2, alpha 4 and beta in female and male mice	13
Inhibitory mechanism of an antifungal drug, caspofungin against amyloid β peptide aggregation: Repurposing via neuroinformatics and an experimental approach	12
Cdc42 activation is necessary for heterosynaptic cooperation and competition	12
Vulnerability of neurofilament-expressing neurons in frontotemporal dementia	12
The extent of damage to the blood-brain barrier in the hypercholesterolemic LDLR−/−/Apo E−/− double knockout mice depends on the animal's age, duration of pathology and brain area	11
Interleukin-15 modulates the response of cortical neurons to ischemia	11
Skeletal muscle sympathetic denervation disrupts the neuromuscular junction postterminal organization: A single-cell quantitative approach	11
iPSC-induced neurons with the V337M MAPT mutation are selectively vulnerable to caspase-mediated cleavage of tau and apoptotic cell death	11
Corrigendum to “Neurotoxic effects of MPTP on mouse cerebral cortex: Modulation of neuroinflammation as a neuroprotective strategy” [Mol. Cell. Neurosci., Volume 96, April 2019, Pages 1–9.]	11
Cardiolipin released by microglia can act on neighboring glial cells to facilitate the uptake of amyloid-β (1–42)	10
Inhibition of phosphodiesterase 10A mitigates neuronal injury by modulating apoptotic pathways in cold-induced traumatic brain injury	10
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Distinct subpopulations of D1 medium spiny neurons exhibit unique transcriptional responsiveness to cocaine	10
In vitro and in vivo models: What have we learnt about inner ear regeneration and treatment for hearing loss?	10
Microfluidics in neural extracellular vesicles characterization for early Alzheimer's disease diagnosis	10
Long-term effects of amyloid-beta deposits in human iPSC-derived astrocytes	10
Glutamine metabolism in diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction	10
Identifying potential genes driving ferroptosis in the substantia nigra and dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease	10
Parvalbumin subtypes of cerebellar Purkinje cells contribute to differential intrinsic firing properties	9
Glutathione S-transferase: A keystone in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis and therapy	9
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Reduced platelet activation and thrombus formation in male transgenic model mice of Alzheimer's disease suggests early sex-specific differences in platelet pathophysiology	9
Signatures of cochlear processing in neuronal coding of auditory information	8
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Differential expression of serotonin2B receptors in GABAergic and serotoninergic neurons of the rat and mouse dorsal raphe nucleus	8
Differential expression of glutamatergic receptor subunits in the hippocampus in carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	8
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans: Mediators of cellular and molecular Alzheimer's disease pathogenic factors via tunnelling nanotubes?	8
Comparing effects of microgravity and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the mouse ventral lumbar spinal cord	7
Experience-dependent Tip60 nucleocytoplasmic transport is regulated by its NLS/NES sequences for neuroplasticity gene control	7
SMN loss dysregulates microtubule-associated proteins in spinal muscular atrophy model	7
Pregabalin-induced neuroprotection and gait improvement in dystrophic MDX mice	7
The molecular neural mechanism underlying the acceleration of brain aging due to Dcf1 deficiency	7
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Absence of Gem1 (mammalian Miro/Rhot) mitigates alpha-synuclein toxicity in a yeast model of Parkinson's disease	7
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Identification of genes involved in neuronal cell death and recovery over time in rat axotomy and neurorrhaphy models through RNA sequencing	7
Salt-loading promotes extracellular ATP release mediated by glial cells in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of rats	6
Intermitochondrial signaling regulates the uniform distribution of stationary mitochondria in axons	6
An integrative study of genetic variants with brain tissue expression identifies viral etiology and potential drug targets of multiple sclerosis	6
Glycogen phosphorylase isoenzyme GPbb versus GPmm regulation of ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus glucoregulatory neurotransmitter and counter-regulatory hormone profiles during hypoglycemia: Role of	6
Muscarinic Modulation of Synaptic Transmission and Short-Term Plasticity in the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus	6
Defective Reelin/Dab1 signaling pathways associated with disturbed hippocampus development of homozygous yotari mice	6
Revealing NOTCH-dependencies in synaptic targets associated with Alzheimer's disease	6
Signal amplification in growth cone gradient sensing by a double negative feedback loop among PTEN, PI(3,4,5)P3 and actomyosin	6
Animal models of hidden hearing loss: Does auditory-nerve-fiber loss cause real-world listening difficulties?	6
Systemic inflammation activates coagulation and immune cell infiltration pathways in brains with propagating α-synuclein fibril aggregates	6
Altered hippocampal dendritic spine maturation after hypoxia-induced seizures in neonatal rats	6
GPR3 accelerates neurite outgrowth and neuronal polarity formation via PI3 kinase-mediating signaling pathway in cultured primary neurons	5
Methylation at a conserved lysine residue modulates tau assembly and cellular functions	5

Axonal transport deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders	5
Operative list of genes associated with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders based on database review	5
Estradiol activates the CaMKKβ/AMPK pathway to enhance neurite outgrowth in cultured adult sensory neurons	5
Dimethyl itaconate reprograms neurotoxic to neuroprotective primary astrocytes through the regulation of NLRP3 inflammasome and NRF2/HO-1 pathways	5
Study on the involvement of microglial S100A8 in neuroinflammation and microglia activation during migraine attacks	5
Hyperactivity of Purkinje cell and motor deficits in C9orf72 knockout mice	5
Compartment specific mitochondrial dysfunction in Drosophila knock-in model of ALS reversed by altered gene expression of OXPHOS subunits and pro-fission factor Drp1	5
Mechanotransduction in mammalian sensory hair cells	5
LMK235, a small molecule inhibitor of HDAC4/5, protects dopaminergic neurons against neurotoxin- and α-synuclein-induced degeneration in cellular models of Parkinson's disease	5
Efferent axons in the zebrafish lateral line degenerate following sensory hair cell ablation	5
Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 3 promotes neuronal apoptosis via the TNF-α/caspase-3 signaling pathway after acute intracerebral hemorrhage	5
Histone H3 dopaminylation in nucleus accumbens, but not medial prefrontal cortex, contributes to cocaine-seeking following prolonged abstinence	5
Plasticity of postsynaptic nanostructure	5
IRS1 expression in hippocampus is age-dependent and is required for mature spine maintenance and neuritogenesis	5
Ketamine attenuates the PTSD-like effect via regulation of glutamatergic signaling in the nucleus accumbens of mice	5
Reelin regulates the migration of late-born hippocampal CA1 neurons via cofilin phosphorylation	5
Elevated ATG13 in serum of patients with ME/CFS stimulates oxidative stress response in microglial cells via activation of receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE)	5
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Identification of cytoskeletal proteins as binding partners of Bri2 BRICHOS domain	4
GDNF requires HIF-1α and RET activation for suppression of programmed cell death of enteric neurons by metabolic challenge	4
Consequences of oxygen deprivation on myelination and sex-dependent alterations	4
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Swimming exercise prevents hippocampal dendritic spine changes and memory loss caused by aging: An application of a new semi-automated spine analysis software	4
The long-loop recycling (LLR) of synaptic components as a question of economics	4
Presynaptic voltage-gated calcium channels in the auditory brainstem	4
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The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked protein TDP-43 regulates interleukin-6 cytokine production by human brain pericytes	4
Cypin binds to tubulin heterodimers and microtubule protofilaments and regulates microtubule spacing in developing hippocampal neurons	4
Alpha-secretase dependent nuclear localization of the amyloid-β precursor protein-binding protein Fe65 promotes DNA repair	3
Amyloid-β deposits in human astrocytes contain truncated and highly resistant proteoforms	3
Corrigendum to Semaphorin 4C and 4G are ligands of Plexin-B2 required in cerebellar development [Mol. Cell. Neurosci., 2011 Feb;46(2):419–31]	3
Harmonic viscoelastic response of 3D histology-informed white matter model	3
Paternal morphine exposure in rats reduces social play in adolescent male progeny without affecting drug-taking behavior in juvenile males or female offspring	3
Suppression of BMP signaling restores mitral cell development impaired by FGF signaling deficits in mouse olfactory bulb	3
Memantine improves cognitive deficits via KATP channel inhibition in olfactory bulbectomized mice	3
The identification of PSEN1 p.Tyr159Ser mutation in a non-canonic early-onset Alzheimer's disease family	3
Sphingosine kinase 2 regulates protein ubiquitination networks in neurons	3
The potential roles of excitatory-inhibitory imbalances and the repressor element-1 silencing transcription factor in aging and aging-associated diseases	3
SUMOylation modulates mitochondrial dynamics in an in vitro rotenone model of Parkinson's disease	3
Activity-dependent circuitry plasticity via the regulation of the histamine receptor level in the Drosophila visual system	3
The function of FUS in neurodevelopment revealed by the brain and spinal cord organoids	3
Corrigendum to “Progress of reprogramming astrocytes into neuron” [Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Volume 130, September 2024, 103947, DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2024.103947]	3
Inactivation of vimentin in satellite glial cells affects dorsal root ganglion intermediate filament expression and neuronal axon growth in vitro	3
Circular RNA regulation and function in drug seeking phenotypes	3
Plexin-B1 and Plexin-B2 play non-redundant roles in GABAergic synapse formation	3
TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease: Structure, function, therapeutic prospects, and activation challenges	3
Single subanesthetic dose of ketamine exerts antioxidant and antidepressive-like effect in ACTH-induced preclinical model of depression	2
Proteomic characterization of spinal cord synaptoneurosomes from Tg-SOD1/G93A mice supports a role for MNK1 and local translation in the early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	2
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VPS35 deficiency in the embryonic cortex leads to prenatal cell loss and abnormal development of axonal connectivity	2
Alpha-synuclein negatively controls cell proliferation in dopaminergic neurons	2
Effects of TDP-43 overexpression on neuron proteome and morphology in vitro	2
Methods for multiscale structural and functional analysis of the mammalian cochlea	2
Cyclosporine A (CsA) prevents synaptic impairment caused by truncated tau by caspase-3	2
Cytoplasmic TDP-43 accumulation drives changes in C-bouton number and size in a mouse model of sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	2
A novel in vitro model for investigating oligodendroglial maturation and myelin deposition under demyelinating and remyelinating conditions: Impact of microglial depletion and repopulation	2
Deletion of PTEN in microglia ameliorates chronic neuroinflammation following repetitive mTBI	2
Transcriptomic changes in the hypothalamus of mice with chronic migraine: Activation of pathways associated with neuropathic inflammation and central sensitization	2
Sex differences in susceptibility to substance use disorder: Role for X chromosome inactivation and escape?	2
Opioid receptor activation suppresses the neuroinflammatory response by promoting microglial M2 polarization	2
Gabapentin inhibits the analgesic effects and nerve regeneration process induced by hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in a peripheral nerve injury model: Implication for the use of VM202 and gabapentinoi	2
Differential expression of the neuronal CB1 cannabinoid receptor in the hippocampus of male Ts65Dn Down syndrome mouse model	2
The role of calcium, Akt and ERK signaling in cadmium-induced hair cell death	2
Systemic inflammation induced from remote extremity trauma is a critical driver of secondary brain injury	2