OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of CO2 on time-dependent changes in cardiorespiratory functions under sustained hypoxia	25
Editorial Board	21
Examining the haemodynamic repercussions of ventilator hyperinflation in elderly patients: An explanatory study	20
Changes in phrenic nerve compound muscle action potential in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats	20
Phrenic-to-intercostal reflex activity in response to high frequency spinal cord stimulation (HF-SCS)	18
Editorial Board	18
Glycemic and lactate thresholds during incremental inspiratory muscle exercise: Is there agreement?	17
Pelvic floor muscle length changes with breathing in males: A preliminary report	17
Invasive ventilation at the boundary of viability: A respiratory pathophysiology study of infants born between 22 and 24 weeks of gestation	17
The pre-Bötzinger complex is necessary for the expression of inspiratory and post-inspiratory motor discharge of the vagus	17
Vagal cardiac control in rats with LPS-induced lung injury	17
Asthma induces psychiatric impairments in association with default mode and salience networks alteration: A resting-state EEG study	16
Impact of physical functional capacity on quality of life in patients with interstitial lung diseases	16
Modality of tracheal sensory inputs modulate swallowing reflexibility and discharge patterns of neurons of the dorsal swallowing group in rats	16
Preventive effects of hesperidin in an experimental model ofs acute lung inflammation	16
Differential inhibition of cough by GABAA and GABAB receptor antagonists in the nucleus of the solitary tract in cats	15
Modulating respiratory mechanics and inflammation in hepatopulmonary syndrome: Aerobic exercise as a therapeutic strategy	15
Editorial Board	15
Axonal projection of the medullary expiratory neurons in the feline thoracic spinal cord	15
Heat stress affects breathing and metabolism of chicks incubated at high temperature	15
Breathing pattern alteration from weanling to old age in male Sprague-Dawley rats	14
Cinnamaldehyde modulates oxidative stress and NF-κB signaling in OVA-induced asthmatic BALB/c mice	14
Changes in cough motor output during repetitive mechanical stimulation of the tracheobronchial tree in cats	14
Effects of inspiratory muscle training on thoracoabdominal volume regulation in older adults: A randomised controlled trial	13
Lung function parameters are associated with acute mountain sickness and are improved at high and extreme altitude	13

Impaired diffusion at submaximal lung inflation in asthma and copd patients	13
Editorial Board	13
Effects of centipedic acid on acute lung injury: A dose-response study in a murine model	12
Tobacco smoking: A stimulus for blood volume expansion	11
Metabolism and respiration in skin burn injury in rats: Corrective effects of melatonin	11
Pulmonary stretch receptor modulation of synaptic inhibition shapes the discharge pattern of respiratory premotor neurons	11
Microinjection of kynurenic acid and lidocaine into the dorsal motor nucleus of vagus evokes airway smooth muscle relaxation in ferrets	11
Post-Exertion Rate of Reperfusion vs Point-by-Point analysis of skeletal tissue near-infrared spectroscopy during repeated fatigue recovery under normoxia and hypoxemia	11
MiR-21 modulates proliferation and apoptosis of human airway smooth muscle cells by regulating autophagy via PARP-1/AMPK/mTOR signalling pathway	10
Optimising the Dyspnoea Challenge: exertional dyspnoea responses to changing treadmill gradients	10
Serial fractional exhaled nitric oxide measurements at and off work may help to identify immunologic occupational asthma in cases with complex exposures	10
Prior self-control exertion decreases pre-frontal cortex oxygenation during a CO rebreathing challenge but does not affect perceptions of dyspnoea or tolerance time	10
Effects of lung volume and trigeminal nerve stimulation on diving response in breath-hold divers and non-divers	10
The acute effect of slow deep breathing variation techniques on ventilatory capacity and inspiratory muscle endurance	10
Elevated risk of dyspnea in adults with obesity	10
Modelling the distribution of the oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve in vivo: An observational study	10
Multiple sensor theory in airway mechanosensory units	10
The effect of stimulation and unloading of baroreceptors on cough in experimental conditions	10
Impact of trigeminal nerve and/or olfactory nerve stimulation on activity of human brain regions involved in the perception of breathlessness	9
Low and sustained doses of erythropoietin prevent preterm infants from intraventricular hemorrhage	9
Stress stimulation promotes the injury repair process of airway epithelial cells through the [Cl−]i−FAK signaling axis	9
Pathophysiology of hypoxemia in mechanically-ventilated patients with COVID-19: A computed tomography study	9
Breath-hold diving as a tool to harness a beneficial increase in cardiac vagal tone	9
Disordered breathing in severe cerebral illness – Towards a conceptual framework	9
Skeletal muscle oxygenation and exercise intolerance in hemodialysis: Navigating toward promising horizons?	8
The influence of different spontaneous breathing trials on regional ventilation distribution in patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation	8
Using the gli spirographic prediction equations to revisit the allometric relationships between lung volumes, height and age in adults	8
Chemogenetic activation of the diaphragm after spinal cord injury in rats	8
End-tidal CO2 and ventilation: Novel markers for assessing performance levels in elite long-distance runners	8
Effects of DNA methylase inhibitors in a murine model of severe BPD	8
Indoor air quality – An overview of methods for measuring odor detection thresholds of single substances	8
Sex differences in the cardiovascular and ventilatory responses to arm or leg mechanoreflex activation	8
Efficiency of exogenous surfactant combined with intravenous N-acetylcysteine in two-hit rodent model of ARDS	8
Effects of sildenafil on gas exchange, ventilatory, and sensory responses to exercise in subjects with mild-to-moderate COPD: A randomized cross-over trial	8
Low level CO2 supplementation maintains isocapnia and reveals ventilatory long-term facilitation in rats	8
Roflumilast, a phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibitor, induces respiratory frequency plasticity that is resistant to inflammation in neonatal rat in vitro preparations	8
Oscillation mechanics in adults with cystic fibrosis: Effect of airway obstruction and detection of early dysfunction	8
Difference in expiratory flow limitations development in normoxia and hypoxia in healthy individuals	8
Respiratory characterization of a humanized Duchenne muscular dystrophy mouse model	7
Electromyographic activity and coordination of accessory respiratory muscles during increased breathing effort in healthy adults	7
Lung function responses to cold water ingestion: A randomised controlled crossover trial	7
Corrigendum to “Characterisation of acute hypoxic response using breath variability parameters: A pilot study” [Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 315 (2023) 104096]	7
GAA replacement improves respiratory muscle, neural, and alveolar pathology in the pompe mouse	7
Two-day cardiopulmonary exercise testing in long COVID post-exertional malaise diagnosis	7
Developmental nicotine exposure eliminates the ventilatory response to a brief episode of severe hypoxia, independently of sex	6
Disinhibition does not play a role in endomorphin-2-induced changes in inspiratory motoneuron output produced by in vitro neonatal rat preparations	6
Airway epithelial cells promote in vitro airway smooth muscle cell proliferation by activating the Wnt/β-catenin pathway	6
Description of three dysfunctional breathing patterns in post-COVID dyspnea	6
Sensitivity of the airway smooth muscle in terms of force, shortening and stiffness	6
Regulation of vagally-evoked respiratory responses by the lateral parabrachial nucleus in the mouse	6

In silico investigation of inhalation condition impacts on hygroscopic growth and deposition of salbutamol sulphate in human airways	6
Cough and swallow after laparotomy in anesthetized cats	6
On pulse oximetry and hypoxia	6
High flow nasal oxygen and awake prone positioning – Two allies against COVID-19: A systematic review	6
Fenofibrate attenuates asthma features in an ovalbumin-induced mouse model via suppressing NF-κB binding activity	5
Respiratory effects of obesity on the ventilatory response to exercise in older adults: the impact of a shift in operational lung volumes	5
Editorial Board	5
A machine learning approach to predicting dyspnea with noninvasive biomarkers	5
Quantification of shunt fraction using contrast ultrasound and indicator dilution in an in vitro model	5
Adipokines in interstitial lung diseases	5
Analysis of the structure and surfactant activity of formulations with exogenous pulmonary surfactant as an antibiotic carrier	5
Strain-specific metabolomic and inflammatory profiles in guinea pigs after LPS-induced inflammation: Comparative analysis of Dunkin-Hartley and Trik strains	5
Influence of chronic hypoxia on the hypoxic ventilatory response of juvenile and adult rats	5
Revisiting Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ventilation management: Time for a paradigm shift focusing on tidal volume	5
Description of automatic-voluntary dissociation of breathing in multiple sclerosis	5
Age influences the specific force and fatigability of the external abdominal obliques but not pectoralis major muscles	5
Fentanyl and neostigmine delivered to mouse prefrontal cortex differentially alter breathing	5
Characterisation of the acute hypoxic response using breathing variability parameters: A pilot study in humans	5
Altered renin-angiotensin system gene expression in airways of antigen-challenged mice: ACE2 downregulation and unexpected increase in angiotensin 1–7	5
Effects of TRPV4 channel blocker on airway inflammation and airway defense reflexes in experimentally induced model of allergic asthma	5
Differential neuromotor control of the vertical and longitudinal genioglossus muscle fibers: An overlooked tongue retractor	5
Simvastatin attenuates inflammatory process on LPS-induced acute lung injury in mice	5
Lung mechanics during recovery of a non-invasively ventilated patient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia	5
Swallowing disorder – A possible therapeutic target for preventing COPD exacerbations	4
Pi-based mechanism of muscle fatigue during all-out exercise in humans	4
Development of periodic breathing in awake healthy individuals under controlled progressive hypoxia	4
Diethelm Richter (1943–2025); A life in respiratory neurobiology	4
Diaphragm stimulation elicits phrenic afferent-induced neuromuscular plasticity	4
Eupneic respiratory pattern and ventilatory responses to environmental CO2 in a small lizard, Anolis carolinensis	4
The change in phase shift between respiratory oscillations of mean arterial pressure and heart rate in head-up tilt test: The effect of simulated microgravity	4
Nasal cycling effects in intranasal drug delivery efficiency to the olfactory cleft	4
Acrolein-induced oxidative and nitrosative stress and its impact on respiratory mechanics in mice assessed using the forced oscillation technique	4
Dysanapsis is a determinant of expiratory flow limitation during exercise in master athletes	4
Combination of acute intermittent hypoxia and intermittent transcutaneous electrical stimulation in obstructive sleep apnea: a randomized controlled crossover trial	4
Early effects of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells on lung and kidney in experimental sepsis	4
Pulmonary recovery directly after COVID-19 and in Long-COVID	4
Corrigendum to “Ethanol abolishes ventilatory long-term facilitation and blunts the ventilatory response to hypoxia in female rats” [Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 332 (2024) 104373]	4
Apnea behavior in early- and late-stage mouse models of Parkinson's disease: Cineradiographic analysis of spontaneous breathing, acute stress, and swallowing	4
Effect of superior laryngeal nerve stimulation on swallowing and respiratory coordination in dexmedetomidine-administered adult rats	4
Computational fluid dynamics assessed changes of nasal airflow after inferior turbinate surgery	4
Editorial Board	4
Impact of mechanical ventilation on oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, memory and anxiety related behavior: Insights from an experimental model	4
Respiratory physiological exploration during self-induced cognitive trance	4
Airway mechanics alters generation of cough motor pattern	4
TRPA1 contributes to respiratory depression from tobacco aerosol	4
Effectiveness of selective NaV1.7 blocker PF-05089771 in reducing cough associated with allergic rhinitis in guinea pigs	4
Influence of combined voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7 and NaV1.8 inhibitors on cough in a guinea pig model	4