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Papers

(The median citation count of Basic Research in Cardiology is 15. 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
Correction to: Endothelial actions of atrial natriuretic peptide prevent pulmonary hypertension in mice	104
Endothelial ACKR3 drives atherosclerosis by promoting immune cell adhesion to vascular endothelium	98
Development and characterization of anti-fibrotic natural compound similars with improved effectivity	77
Erythrocytes from patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction induce cardioprotection through the purinergic P2Y13 receptor and nitric oxide signaling	76
Alkaline nucleoplasm facilitates contractile gene expression in the mammalian heart	51
Elevated platelet–leukocyte complexes are associated with, but dispensable for myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	47
Spinal cord astrocytes regulate myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	40
Tachycardiomyopathy entails a dysfunctional pattern of interrelated mitochondrial functions	39
New insights into cardioprotection, gained by adopting the CAESAR standards of rigor	38
Publisher Correction: Transcriptome-wide association study of coronary artery disease identifies novel susceptibility genes	35
Desmin intermediate filaments and tubulin detyrosination stabilize growing microtubules in the cardiomyocyte	34
Retraction Note to: Amphiregulin enhances cardiac fibrosis and aggravates cardiac dysfunction in mice with experimental myocardial infarction partly through activating EGFR‑dependent pathway	32
On the cellular origin of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs)	30
Reverse re-modelling chronic heart failure by reinstating heart rate variability	30
Uncovering the molecular identity of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) by single-cell RNA sequencing	29
Mechanism of the switch from NO to H2O2 in endothelium-dependent vasodilation in diabetes	28
Fibro-fatty remodelling in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	28
Increased protein S-nitrosylation in mitochondria: a key mechanism of exercise-induced cardioprotection	27
Osteopontin promotes infarct repair	27
Forebrain corticosteroid receptors promote post-myocardial infarction depression and mortality	25
Reduction of A-to-I RNA editing in the failing human heart regulates formation of circular RNAs	24
Molecular imaging of the brain–heart axis provides insights into cardiac dysfunction after cerebral ischemia	24
Loss of NPPA-AS1 promotes heart regeneration by stabilizing SFPQ–NONO heteromer-induced DNA repair	24
RGS3L allows for an M2 muscarinic receptor-mediated RhoA-dependent inotropy in cardiomyocytes	21
Cardiomyocyte p38 MAPKα suppresses a heart–adipose tissue–neutrophil crosstalk in heart failure development	21

Non-responsiveness to cardioprotection by ischaemic preconditioning in Ossabaw minipigs with genetic predisposition to, but without the phenotype of the metabolic syndrome	21
Coronary blood flow in heart failure: cause, consequence and bystander	21
Bone marrow-derived naïve B lymphocytes improve heart function after myocardial infarction: a novel cardioprotective mechanism for empagliflozin	20
Remote ischaemic conditioning: defining critical criteria for success—report from the 11th Hatter Cardiovascular Workshop	19
Prolonged cardiac NR4A2 activation causes dilated cardiomyopathy in mice	18
Single-cell transcriptomic identified HIF1A as a target for attenuating acute rejection after heart transplantation	17
Innate immune cells in the pathophysiology of calcific aortic valve disease: lessons to be learned from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease?	16
Extracellular stiffness induces contractile dysfunction in adult cardiomyocytes via cell-autonomous and microtubule-dependent mechanisms	15
Metabolism regulator adiponectin prevents cardiac remodeling and ventricular arrhythmias via sympathetic modulation in a myocardial infarction model	15
Doxorubicin induces cardiotoxicity in a pluripotent stem cell model of aggressive B cell lymphoma cancer patients	15
Remote Ischemic Conditioning: more explanations and more expectations	15
Chemical and mechanical activation of resident cardiac macrophages in the living myocardial slice ex vivo model	15