OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The cardiovascular challenges in giraffes	29
Skeletal muscle: a biologists’ adventure playground	18
Cryo-electron tomography of intact cardiac muscle reveals myosin binding protein-C linking myosin and actin filaments	13
Theoretical treatment of tension transients in muscle following sudden changes in orthophosphate concentration: implications for energy transduction	12
Plasticity in leukocyte migration during haematopoiesis and inflammation	12
Direct measurement of mavacamten and deoxyATP perturbation of the SRX/DRX ratio in porcine cardiac myofibrils using a simple, accessible and multiplexed approach	11
Glutamine supplementation improves contractile function of regenerating soleus muscles from rats	10
Unraveling the bidirectional relationship between muscle inflammation and satellite cells activity: influencing factors and insights	9
Obituary: Professor John Michael Squire	9
The role of ZBP1 in eccentric exercise-induced skeletal muscle necroptosis	8
Downhill running induced DNA damage enhances mitochondrial membrane permeability by facilitating ER-mitochondria signaling	8
Biomechanical evaluation of flash-frozen and cryo-sectioned papillary muscle samples by using sinusoidal analysis: cross-bridge kinetics and the effect of partial Ca2+ activation	8
IFRD2, a target of miR-2400, regulates myogenic differentiation of bovine skeletal muscle satellite cells via decreased phosphorylation of ERK1/2 proteins	7
Extreme Physiology Extreme Tolerance to Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, and Pain in the Naked Mole-Rat	6
Numb family proteins play roles in Desmin and Vimentin localization at the Z-disc	6
Skeletal muscle alterations in Marfan syndrome: a systematic review	6
Effects of membrane cholesterol-targeting chemicals on skeletal muscle contractions evoked by direct and indirect stimulation	6
Danicamtiv affected isometric force and cross-bridge kinetics similarly in skinned myocardial strips from male and female rats	6
Sympathetic innervation in skeletal muscle and its role at the neuromuscular junction	6
AMPK and glucose deprivation exert an isoform-specific effect on the expression of Na+,K+-ATPase subunits in cultured myotubes	6
Zebrafish as a model for cardiac disease; Cryo-EM structure of native cardiac thin filaments from Danio Rerio	6
Mammalian organ regeneration in spiny mice	6
Regulation of Autonomic Motility in Human Gastric Muscle and the Gastroepiploic Artery by Stretch and pH	5
Enduring effects of acute prenatal ischemia in rat soleus muscle, and protective role of erythropoietin	5
Arginine ingestion inhibits phagocyte invasion in eccentrically contracted rat fast-twitch muscle	5

Adaptations for extremely high muscular power output: why do muscles that operate at intermediate cycle frequencies generate the highest powers?	5
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of endogenous fluorophores in health and disease	4
Mechanisms of eccentric contraction-induced muscle damage and nutritional supplementations for mitigating it	4
Tissue-specific isoform expression of GNE gene in human tissues	4
Molecular insights into titin’s A-band	4
Smooth muscle of the lower urinary tract: BK-RyR coupling in physiology and pathophysiology	4
Progress and prospects in antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy	4
Mechanisms of weakness in Mdx muscle following in vivo eccentric contractions	3
Four phases of a force transient emerge from a binary mechanical system	3
Insights into human muscle biology from human primary skeletal muscle cell culture	3
Myosin assembly of smooth muscle: from ribbons and side polarity to a row polar helical model	3
Optimizing 2D in vitro differentiation conditions for C2C12 murine myoblasts on gelatin hydrogel	3
TAM-associated CASQ1 mutants diminish intracellular Ca2+ content and interfere with regulation of SOCE	3
ANKRD1 expression is aberrantly upregulated in the mdm mouse model of muscular dystrophy and induced by stretch through NFκB	3
The predominant stride-frequency for routine swimming in catsharks (Scyliorhinus canicula) generates high power at high efficiency in the red musculature	3
50 Years of the steric-blocking mechanism in vertebrate skeletal muscle: a retrospective	3
Methylglyoxal reduces resistance exercise-induced protein synthesis and anabolic signaling in rat tibialis anterior muscle	2
LncRNA Xist acts as a miR-486-5p sponge to modulate myoblast proliferation by recruiting Stk4	2
The effects of exercise and mitochondrial transplantation alone or in combination against Doxorubicin-induced skeletal muscle atrophy	2
Residual force enhancement following hindlimb unloading and exercise prehabilitation	2
Six weeks of high-load resistance and low-load blood flow restricted training increase Na/K-ATPase sub-units α2 and β1 equally, but does not alter ClC-1 abundance in untrained human skeletal muscle	2
Participation and performance characteristics in half-marathon run: a brief narrative review	2
Influence of neuromuscular transmission and Na+ channel inhibitors on strength-duration relationship in isolated slow- and fast-twitch muscles	2
Inhibition of the ubiquitin-proteasome system reduces the abundance of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 in cultured myotubes	2
Urinary titin represents an exciting biomarker for assessment of muscle health	2
Polystyrene microplastics (PS-MPs) disturb skeleto-muscular energy metabolism and tissue architecture following sub-acute exposure: A dose-responsive study	2
Preservation of shortening velocity and power output in single muscle fibres from patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies	2
Virtually “muscling” in pandemic: first virtual European Muscle Conference (September 20–22, 2021)	2
The cryo-EM 3D image reconstruction of isolated Lethocerus indicus Z-discs	2
The vertebrate muscle superlattice: discovery, consequences, and link to geometric frustration	2