OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Skeletal Muscle 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Abnormalities in the genioglossus muscle and its neuromuscular synapse in leptin-deficient male mice	121
Metabolic signatures and potential biomarkers of sarcopenia in suburb-dwelling older Chinese: based on untargeted GC–MS and LC–MS	90
Tropomyosin 3 (TPM3) function in skeletal muscle and in myopathy	81
Golodirsen restores DMD transcript imbalance in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patient muscle cells	39
The SarcoEndoplasmic Reticulum Calcium ATPase (SERCA) pump: a potential target for intervention in aging and skeletal muscle pathologies	39
Fibro-adipogenic progenitor cells in skeletal muscle unloading: metabolic and functional impairments	37
ASM is a therapeutic target in dermatomyositis by regulating the differentiation of naive CD4 + T cells into Th17 and Treg subsets	27
Pilot investigations into the mechanistic basis for adverse effects of glucocorticoids in dysferlinopathy	25
Zebrafish and cellular models of SELENON-Congenital myopathy exhibit novel embryonic and metabolic phenotypes	23
SIX transcription factors are necessary for the activation of DUX4 expression in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy	22
A knock down strategy for rapid, generic, and versatile modelling of muscular dystrophies in 3D-tissue-engineered-skeletal muscle	20
Comparative lipidomic and metabolomic profiling of mdx and severe mdx-apolipoprotein e-null mice	19
Spiny mice are primed but fail to regenerate volumetric skeletal muscle loss injuries	19
AAV-NRIP gene therapy ameliorates motor neuron degeneration and muscle atrophy in ALS model mice	17
Effect of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) on neuromuscular junctions and mitochondria in slow- and fast-twitch skeletal muscles of mice—the role of iNOS	14
New tools for the investigation of muscle fiber-type spatial distributions across histological sections	13
Extensive striated muscle damage in a rat model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with Dmd exons 10–17 duplication	13
Expression of Myomaker and Myomerger in myofibers causes muscle pathology	13
Improved CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in primary human myoblasts using low confluency cultures on Matrigel	13
High-throughput muscle fiber typing from RNA sequencing data	13
Generation of a novel mouse model of nemaline myopathy due to recurrent NEB exon 55 deletion	12
Metabolomic signatures for the longitudinal reduction of muscle strength over 10 years	12
Pannexin 1 dysregulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and its exacerbation of dystrophic features in mdx mice	12
Decreased number of satellite cells-derived myonuclei in both fast- and slow-twitch muscles in HeyL-KO mice during voluntary running exercise	12
Macroglossia and less advanced dystrophic change in the tongue muscle of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy rat	11

Wnt7a is required for regeneration of dystrophic skeletal muscle	11
Fusion of myofibre branches is a physiological feature of healthy human skeletal muscle regeneration	11
Exercise, disease state and sex influence the beneficial effects of Fn14-depletion on survival and muscle pathology in the SOD1G93A amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mouse model	10
The Myotube Analyzer: how to assess myogenic features in muscle stem cells	10
Role and mechanism of myonectin in severe acute pancreatitis: a crosstalk between skeletal muscle and pancreas	10
Endurance exercise with reduced muscle glycogen content influences substrate utilization and attenuates acute mTORC1- and autophagic signaling in human type I and type II muscle fibers	10
Mll4 in skeletal muscle fibers maintains muscle stem cells	9
Eldecalcitol prevents muscle loss and osteoporosis in disuse muscle atrophy via NF-κB signaling in mice	9
IL-33-ST2 signaling in fibro-adipogenic progenitors alleviates immobilization-induced muscle atrophy in mice	9
Angiogenesis precedes myogenesis during regeneration following biopsy injury of skeletal muscle	8
Prolonged FOS activity disrupts a global myogenic transcriptional program by altering 3D chromatin architecture in primary muscle progenitor cells	8
Muscle stem cell adaptations to cellular and environmental stress	8
Electrical impedance myography detects dystrophin-related muscle changes in mdx mice	7
Metabolic pathways for removing reactive aldehydes are diminished in the skeletal muscle during heart failure	7
Novel γ-sarcoglycan interactors in murine muscle membranes	7
CaMKIIβ deregulation contributes to neuromuscular junction destabilization in Myotonic Dystrophy type I	7
Intramuscular fatty infiltration and its correlation with muscle composition and function in hip osteoarthritis	7
Regulation of injury-induced skeletal myofiber regeneration by glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4)	6
Absence of the Z-disc protein α-actinin-3 impairs the mechanical stability of Actn3KO mouse fast-twitch muscle fibres without altering their contractile properties or twitch kinetics	6
Sarcopenia: investigation of metabolic changes and its associated mechanisms	6
Age-related gene expression signatures from limb skeletal muscles and the diaphragm in mice and rats reveal common and species-specific changes	6
Contrasting Becker and Duchenne muscular dystrophy serum biomarker candidates by using data independent acquisition LC-MS/MS	6
Functional replacement of myostatin with GDF-11 in the germline of mice	6
Investigating the correlation of muscle function tests and sarcomere organization in C. elegans	6
Pharmacology and macrophage modulation of HPGDS inhibitor PK007 demonstrate reduced disease severity in DMD-affected muscles of the mdx mouse model	6
Extracellular vesicle distribution and localization in skeletal muscle at rest and following disuse atrophy	6
Cellular and molecular alterations to muscles and neuromuscular synapses in a mouse model of MEGF10-related myopathy	5
The double homeodomain protein DUX4c is associated with regenerating muscle fibers and RNA-binding proteins	5
Biomarkers for Duchenne muscular dystrophy progression: impact of age in the mdx tongue spared muscle	5
Dysregulated ATX-LPA and YAP/TAZ signaling in dystrophic Sgcd−/− mice with early fibrosis and inflammation	5
Aminoguanidine hemisulfate improves mitochondrial autophagy, oxidative stress, and muscle force in Duchenne muscular dystrophy via the AKT/FOXO1 pathway in mdx mice	5
Identifying kinematic biomarkers of the dystrophic phenotype in a zebrafish model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy	5
The prevalence of low muscle mass associated with obesity in the USA	4
Oxidative stress-induced premature senescence and aggravated denervated skeletal muscular atrophy by regulating progerin–p53 interaction	4
Age-related differences in the loss and recovery of serial sarcomere number following disuse atrophy in rats	4
David J. Glass elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences	4
Rapid restitution of contractile dysfunction by synthetic copolymers in dystrophin-deficient single live skeletal muscle fibers	4