OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microvascular Research is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Structural and functional analysis of retinal vasculature in HANAC syndrome with a novel intronic COL4A1 mutation	67
Corrigendum to: “Sodium butyrate and voluntary exercise through activating VEGF-A downstream signaling pathway improve heart angiogenesis in type 2 diabetes” is as follows: 48A, Auf dem Mühlberg, 6059	51
Editorial Board	51
Corrigendum to “Morphometrics of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy lesions and choroidal vascular associated with treatment response using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography” [Micro	46
Capillary microarchitectural changes in Cushing's syndrome	43
HbA1c is related to microcirculation blood perfusion in patients with coronary microvascular disease using stress perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance: An observational study	31
Tanshinone IIA improves cardiac function via regulating miR-499-5p dependent angiogenesis in myocardial ischemic mice	30
Ketone bodies supplementation restores the barrier function, induces a metabolic switch, and elicits beta-hydroxybutyrate diffusion across a monolayer of iPSC-derived brain microvascular endothelial c	29
Nailfold capillary changes in newly diagnosed hypertensive patients: An observational analytical study	28
Impaired retinal microcirculation in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease	27
Association between serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin and inflammation, oxidative stress in pregnancy-induced hypertension	27
Proteomics suggests the role of Cxcl12 secreted by hucMSCs in the treatment of lipopolysaccharide-acute lung injury	25
PRDX6-mediated pulmonary artery endothelial cell ferroptosis contributes to monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension	24
Diet-induced hypertension in rats is associated with increased renal vasoconstrictor response to angiotensin II after imitated endothelial dysfunction	23
Long-term efficacy of liposomal nanocarriers of preassembled glycocalyx in restoring cerebral endothelial glycocalyx in sepsis	23
The repetitive application of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) improves microcirculation parameters in chronic wounds	22
Hierarchical data visualization of experimental erythrocyte aggregation employing cross correlation and optical flow applications	22
Workload and sex effects in comprehensive assessment of cutaneous microcirculation	22
Coronary microvascular dysfunction	21
Association between microcirculation in spontaneous breathing trial and extubation success	21
Reflections on the unexpected laboratory finding of hemorheological alterations observed in some haematological disorders	21
Assessment of hemodynamic indices of conjunctival microvascular function in patients with coronary microvascular dysfunction	21
Curcumin promotes venous thrombi resolve process in a mouse deep venous thrombosis model via regulating miR-499	20
Oxidative stress and vascular dysfunction: Potential therapeutic targets and therapies in peripheral artery disease	20
Analysis of urethral blood flow by high-resolution laser speckle contrast imaging in a rat model of vaginal distension	20

Coronary microvascular dysfunction and autoregulatory capacity interfere with resting Dicrotic notch morphology	18
Estimation of shear stress values along endothelial tip cells past the lumen of capillary sprouts	18
Vessel Metrics: A software tool for automated analysis of vascular structure in confocal imaging	18
Imaging the microvasculature using nailfold capillaroscopy in patients with coronavirus disease-2019; A cross-sectional study	18
Intrauterine growth restriction neonates present with increased angiogenesis through the Notch1 signaling pathway	17
Biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction and outcomes in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Harnessing the benefits of glycine supplementation for improved pancreatic microcirculation in type 1 diabetes mellitus	17
Angiogenesis in diabetic mouse model with critical limb ischemia; cell and gene therapy	16
Pulmonary hypertension impairs vasomotor function in rat diaphragm arterioles	16
COL10A1 is a novel factor in the development of choroidal neovascularization	16
Editorial Board	16
Circulating glycocalyx biomarkers in patients with Kawasaki disease: A risk assessment	16
Assessment of microvascular function using a novel technique Flow Mediated Skin Fluorescence (FMSF) in patients with diabetic kidney disease: A preliminary study	16
Endothelial dysfunction and complement activation are independently associated with disease duration in patients with systemic vasculitis	15
Absolute retinal blood flow in healthy eyes and in eyes with retinal vein occlusion	15
Improved nested U-structure for accurate nailfold capillary segmentation	15
Characterization of microvascular disease in pediatric sickle cell disease using nailfold capillaroscopy	15
Laser speckle contrast imaging and laser Doppler flowmetry reproducibly assess reflex cutaneous vasoconstriction	15
Prognostic impact of coronary microvascular dysfunction in patients with atrial fibrillation	15
MiR-221-3p targets HIPK2 to promote diabetic wound healing	14
Dynamics of scFv-targeted VAP2 correlating with IL-16, MIF and IL-1Ra in ANCA-associated vasculitis	14
Heterogeneity of nanomechanical properties of the human umbilical vein endothelial cell surface	14
Involvement of nitric oxide synthase and reactive oxygen species in TRPA1-mediated cutaneous vasodilation in young and older adults	14
Association of chemokines IP-10/CXCL10 and I-TAC/CXCL11 with insulin resistance and enhance leukocyte endothelial arrest in obesity	13
Mangiferin attenuates cigarette smoke-induced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in male albino rats	13
Editorial Board	13
Overexpression of sFlt-1 represses ox-LDL-induced injury of HUVECs by activating autophagy via PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway	13
Microvascular effects of oxygen and carbon dioxide measured by vascular occlusion test in healthy volunteers	13
Editorial Board	13
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Calcium/protein kinase C signaling mechanisms in shear-induced mechanical responses of red blood cells	12
Age-related decrease of cholinergic parasympathetic reflex vasodilation in the rat masseter muscle	12
Innate lymphoid cells in the brain: Focus on ischemic stroke	12
Sex and age-related day-to-day variability in the skin microcirculation during post-occlusive reactive hyperemia	12
Relationship between nailfold videocapillaroscopic findings and cardiovascular risk factors	12
Inhibition of Src improves cardiac fibrosis in AngII-induced hypertrophy by regulating the expression of galectin-3	12
Post-ischemic skin peak oxygen saturation is associated with cardiovascular risk factors: a Swedish cohort study	12
Comparative evaluation of trypsin and elastase digestion techniques for isolation of murine retinal vasculature	11
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) induces pro-inflammatory and immunomodulatory phenotype of platelets in the absence of a pro-aggregatory state	11
Gut microbiota-derived metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide and biomarkers of inflammation are linked to endothelial and coronary microvascular function in patients with inflammatory bowel disease	11
Significance of Hall currents on hybrid nano-blood flow through an inclined artery having mild stenosis: Homotopy perturbation approach	11
Goal-directed colloid versus crystalloid therapy and microcirculatory blood flow following ischemia/reperfusion	11
In vitro study on the partitioning of red blood cells using a microchannel network	11
Structured adaptive boosting trees for detection of multicellular aggregates in fluorescence intravital microscopy	10
Inhibition of XIST attenuates abdominal aortic aneurysm in mice by regulating apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells through miR-762/MAP2K4 axis	10
Hydrogen sulfide postconditioning rendered cardioprotection against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury is compromised in rats with diabetic cardiomyopathy.	10
Editorial Board	10
Plasma interleukin-41 serves as a potential diagnostic biomarker for Kawasaki disease	10
Assessment of renal microcirculation in biopsy-proven tubulointerstitial nephritis in patients with and without glomerular disease: the role of resistive index	10
Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging-based diagnosis of severe mesenteric traction syndrome: Hemodynamics and prostacyclin - A prospective cohort study	10

Biodegraded PCl and gelatin fabricated vascular patch in rat aortic and inferior vena cava angioplasty	10
Vitamin D deficiency enhances vascular oxidative stress, inflammation, and angiotensin II levels in the microcirculation of diabetic patients	10
Moderate dose of dietary nitrate improves skeletal muscle microvascular function in patients with peripheral artery disease	10
Editorial Board	9
Gastrodin protects endothelial cells against high glucose-induced injury through up-regulation of PPARβ and alleviation of nitrative stress	9
Corrigendum to “NLRC5 modulates phenotypic transition and inflammation of human venous smooth muscle cells by activating Wnt/β-catenin pathway via TLR4 in varicose veins” [Microvasc. Res. 143 (2022) 1	9
Focal adhesion kinase mediates microvascular leakage and endothelial barrier dysfunction in ischemia-reperfusion injury	9
Benzo(α)pyrene induces oxidative stress and inflammation in human vascular endothelial cells through AhR and NF-κB pathways	9
The acute effects of passive heating on endothelial function, muscle microvascular oxygen delivery, and expression of serum HSP90α	9
Decreased retinal capillary density as a beneficial response to 24-week high-speed circuit resistant training in healthy older adults	9
Angiographic microvascular resistance in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy	9
Sepsis after middle cerebral artery occlusion exacerbates peripheral oxidative stress in a sex-specific manner	9
Overexpression of hsa_circ_0022742 suppressed hyperglycemia-induced endothelial dysfunction by targeting the miR-503-5p/FBXW7 axis	9
Follow-up assessment of the microvascular function in patients with long COVID	9
The process of methylglyoxal-induced retinal capillary endothelial cell degeneration in rats	9
Impact of small fractions of abnormal erythrocytes on blood rheology	9
Downregulation of hsa-miR-203 in peripheral blood and wound margin tissue by negative pressure wound therapy contributes to wound healing of diabetic foot ulcers	9
Curcumin improves angiogenesis in the heart of aged rats: Involvement of TSP1/NF-κB/VEGF-A signaling	8
Definition and application of proximal-distal gradient finger perfusion in systemic sclerosis by laser speckle contrast analysis	8
Full longitudinal nailfold videocapillaroscopy analysis of microvascular changes during normal pregnancy	8
Differential effects of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on choriocapillaris perfusion in healthy adults and patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)	8
Does sex influence near-infrared spectroscopy-derived indicators of microvascular reactivity and the response to acute dietary capsaicin	8
Implication of long non-coding RNA NEAT1 in the pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis-induced blood-brain barrier damage	8
Magnetic drug targeting during Caputo fractionalized blood flow through permeable vessel	8
Improvement of tube formation model of cell: Application for acute hypoxia in in vitro study of angiogenesis	8
Morphometrics of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy lesions and choroidal vascular associated with treatment response using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography	7
Evaluation of coronary function in female rats with severe type 1 diabetes: Effects of combined treatment with insulin and pyridoxamine	7
Capillary microarchitectural changes are independent of disease activity in acromegaly	7
Microvascular dysfunction in pediatric patients with SARS-COV-2 pneumonia: report of three severe cases	7
A pilot study: Exploring the influence of COVID-19 on cardiovascular physiology and retinal microcirculation	7
ATP induced calcium signaling activity in perivascular cells differ at different vascular branch levels in the porcine retina	7
Reduced IGFBP-2 related immunoreactivity in human serum correlates with arterial stiffness in a healthy Chinese population	7
Revisiting hemodynamics and blood oxygenation in a microfluidic microvasculature replica	7
Effects of sensory nerve blockade on cutaneous microvascular responses to ischemia-reperfusion injury	7
Reproducibility of high-resolution laser speckle contrast imaging to assess cutaneous microcirculation for wound healing monitoring in mice	7
GBP2 inhibits pathological angiogenesis in the retina via the AKT/mTOR/VEGFA axis	7
Association between three-dimensional morphological features and functional indicators of neovascular age-related macular degeneration	7
Investigation of the effects of gestational diabetes and hypertension on retinal and choroidal microvascular circulation using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography	7
Altered tissue oxygenation in patients with post COVID-19 syndrome	7
Vascular read-out for TRP channel functionality on distal peripheral nerve endings in healthy men	7
Vincristine attenuates isoprenaline-induced cardiac hypertrophy in male Wistar rats via suppression of ROS/NO/NF-қB signalling pathways	7
A robust quantitative approach for laser speckle contrast imaging perfusion analysis revealed anomalies in the brain blood flow in offspring mice of preeclampsia	7
Endothelial thioredoxin interacting protein (TXNIP) modulates endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation in hyperglycemia	7
Adenosine promoted angiogenesis mediated by the release of small extracellular vesicles from human endothelial progenitor cells	6
Long noncoding TUG1 promotes angiogenesis of HUVECs in PE via regulating the miR-29a-3p/VEGFA and Ang2/Tie2 pathways	6
Vascular smooth muscle cells in intracranial aneurysms	6
Contribution of platelets to disruption of the blood-brain barrier during arterial baroreflex dysfunction	6
A2A receptor agonists and P2Y12 receptor antagonists modulate expression of thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) and its secretion from Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells (HMEC-1)	6
Retinal microvascular dysfunction in systemic sclerosis	6
Edible oil based optical clearing for optical coherence tomography angiography imaging	6
Automated nailfold capillary density measurement method based on improved YOLOv5	6
Modulation of vascular integrity and neuroinflammation by peroxiredoxin 4 following cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury	6
Increased angiopoietin-1 improves nailfold capillary morphology in patients with systemic sclerosis	6
Concentration-dependent microvascular responses to repeated iontophoresis of acetylcholine	6
A novel transcriptional complex on the VE-cadherin promoter regulated the downregulation of VE-cadherin in the Down Syndrome Candidate Region 1 isoform 1L-mediated angiogenesis	6
Omentin reduces venous neointimal hyperplasia in arteriovenous fistula through hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha inhibition	6
Capillaroscopic analysis of the microvascular status in mixed versus undifferentiated connective tissue disease	6
Robust analysis of microcirculatory flowmotion during post-occlusive reactive hyperemia	6
The role of circRNAs in the regulation of myocardial angiogenesis in coronary heart disease	6
Modulation of angiopoietin-2 and Tie2: Organ specific effects of microvascular leakage and edema in mice	6
Frailty influences the vascular responsiveness of elderly individuals with chronic heart failure	6
Nailfold capillaroscopy: A sensitive method for evaluating microvascular involvement in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection	6