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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Abnormalities in the genioglossus muscle and its neuromuscular synapse in leptin-deficient male mice	91
Metabolic signatures and potential biomarkers of sarcopenia in suburb-dwelling older Chinese: based on untargeted GC–MS and LC–MS	50
The paradox of hnRNPK: both absence and excess impair skeletal muscle function in mice	50
Tropomyosin 3 (TPM3) function in skeletal muscle and in myopathy	44
Golodirsen restores DMD transcript imbalance in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patient muscle cells	36
Pirfenidone treatment improves ischemic muscle function in mice with chronic kidney disease	32
Pilot investigations into the mechanistic basis for adverse effects of glucocorticoids in dysferlinopathy	27
Zebrafish and cellular models of SELENON-Congenital myopathy exhibit novel embryonic and metabolic phenotypes	22
Fibro-adipogenic progenitor cells in skeletal muscle unloading: metabolic and functional impairments	21
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	17
ASM is a therapeutic target in dermatomyositis by regulating the differentiation of naive CD4 + T cells into Th17 and Treg subsets	17
SIX transcription factors are necessary for the activation of DUX4 expression in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy	17
Spiny mice are primed but fail to regenerate volumetric skeletal muscle loss injuries	16
AAV-NRIP gene therapy ameliorates motor neuron degeneration and muscle atrophy in ALS model mice	16
Effect of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) on neuromuscular junctions and mitochondria in slow- and fast-twitch skeletal muscles of mice—the role of iNOS	15
High-throughput muscle fiber typing from RNA sequencing data	14
Extensive striated muscle damage in a rat model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy with Dmd exons 10–17 duplication	13
Macroglossia and less advanced dystrophic change in the tongue muscle of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy rat	13
New tools for the investigation of muscle fiber-type spatial distributions across histological sections	13
Expression of Myomaker and Myomerger in myofibers causes muscle pathology	13
Pannexin 1 dysregulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and its exacerbation of dystrophic features in mdx mice	12
Metabolomic signatures for the longitudinal reduction of muscle strength over 10 years	12
Decreased number of satellite cells-derived myonuclei in both fast- and slow-twitch muscles in HeyL-KO mice during voluntary running exercise	12
Generation of a novel mouse model of nemaline myopathy due to recurrent NEB exon 55 deletion	11

Wnt7a is required for regeneration of dystrophic skeletal muscle	11
The Myotube Analyzer: how to assess myogenic features in muscle stem cells	11
Fusion of myofibre branches is a physiological feature of healthy human skeletal muscle regeneration	11
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	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
Fighting for every beat: cardiac therapies in Duchenne muscular dystrophy	10
Role and mechanism of myonectin in severe acute pancreatitis: a crosstalk between skeletal muscle and pancreas	9
Mll4 in skeletal muscle fibers maintains muscle stem cells	9
IL-33-ST2 signaling in fibro-adipogenic progenitors alleviates immobilization-induced muscle atrophy in mice	9
Metabolic pathways for removing reactive aldehydes are diminished in the skeletal muscle during heart failure	8
Prolonged FOS activity disrupts a global myogenic transcriptional program by altering 3D chromatin architecture in primary muscle progenitor cells	8
Spatiotemporal analysis of dystrophin expression during muscle repair	8
The metabolic role of corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 2 and its UCN peptides: emerging therapeutic potential	8
Muscle stem cell adaptations to cellular and environmental stress	8
Eldecalcitol prevents muscle loss and osteoporosis in disuse muscle atrophy via NF-κB signaling in mice	8
N-acetylglucosamine facilitates coordinated flow-like movement of myoblasts, forming a foundation for efficient myogenesis	8
Novel γ-sarcoglycan interactors in murine muscle membranes	8
Angiogenesis precedes myogenesis during regeneration following biopsy injury of skeletal muscle	8
Intramuscular fatty infiltration and its correlation with muscle composition and function in hip osteoarthritis	7
Electrical impedance myography detects dystrophin-related muscle changes in mdx mice	7
FLASH: innovative integrated enzymatic-fluorescent labeling for automated muscle fiber typing, metabolic and morphometric analysis	7
Contrasting Becker and Duchenne muscular dystrophy serum biomarker candidates by using data independent acquisition LC-MS/MS	7
CaMKIIβ deregulation contributes to neuromuscular junction destabilization in Myotonic Dystrophy type I	7
Multiple cis-regulatory modules ensure robust tup/islet1 function in dorsal muscle identity specification	7
Functional replacement of myostatin with GDF-11 in the germline of mice	6
Extracellular vesicle distribution and localization in skeletal muscle at rest and following disuse atrophy	6
Age-related gene expression signatures from limb skeletal muscles and the diaphragm in mice and rats reveal common and species-specific changes	5
Displaced myonuclei are attributable to both resident myonuclear migration and stem cell fusion during mechanical loading in adult skeletal muscle	5
Pharmacology and macrophage modulation of HPGDS inhibitor PK007 demonstrate reduced disease severity in DMD-affected muscles of the mdx mouse model	5
Regulation of injury-induced skeletal myofiber regeneration by glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4)	5
Sarcopenia: investigation of metabolic changes and its associated mechanisms	5
TET exhibits enzymatic-independent and-dependent functions during Drosophila flight muscle development and aging	5
Identifying kinematic biomarkers of the dystrophic phenotype in a zebrafish model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy	4
Biomarkers for Duchenne muscular dystrophy progression: impact of age in the mdx tongue spared muscle	4
The prevalence of low muscle mass associated with obesity in the USA	4
The double homeodomain protein DUX4c is associated with regenerating muscle fibers and RNA-binding proteins	4
DUX4 at 25: how it emerged from “junk DNA” to become the cause of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy	4
Cellular and molecular alterations to muscles and neuromuscular synapses in a mouse model of MEGF10-related myopathy	4
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	4
Growth differentiation factor 10 inhibits fat infiltration in tongue muscles of mice with high-fat diet	4
Age-related differences in the loss and recovery of serial sarcomere number following disuse atrophy in rats	4