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Papers

(The median citation count of Basic Research in Cardiology is 16. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Endothelial ACKR3 drives atherosclerosis by promoting immune cell adhesion to vascular endothelium	149
Correction to: Endothelial actions of atrial natriuretic peptide prevent pulmonary hypertension in mice	110
Alkaline nucleoplasm facilitates contractile gene expression in the mammalian heart	97
Development and characterization of anti-fibrotic natural compound similars with improved effectivity	93
Erythrocytes from patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction induce cardioprotection through the purinergic P2Y13 receptor and nitric oxide signaling	75
Tachycardiomyopathy entails a dysfunctional pattern of interrelated mitochondrial functions	72
Elevated platelet–leukocyte complexes are associated with, but dispensable for myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	62
Spinal cord astrocytes regulate myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	60
Publisher Correction: Transcriptome-wide association study of coronary artery disease identifies novel susceptibility genes	50
New insights into cardioprotection, gained by adopting the CAESAR standards of rigor	44
Desmin intermediate filaments and tubulin detyrosination stabilize growing microtubules in the cardiomyocyte	39
Retraction Note to: Amphiregulin enhances cardiac fibrosis and aggravates cardiac dysfunction in mice with experimental myocardial infarction partly through activating EGFR‑dependent pathway	37
On the cellular origin of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs)	36
Cardiomyocyte Na+ and Ca2+ mishandling drives vicious cycle involving CaMKII, ROS, and ryanodine receptors	35
Mechanism of the switch from NO to H2O2 in endothelium-dependent vasodilation in diabetes	34
Distributed synthesis of sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane proteins in cardiac myocytes	31
Uncovering the molecular identity of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) by single-cell RNA sequencing	30
Reverse re-modelling chronic heart failure by reinstating heart rate variability	30
Resolving the intertwining of inflammation and fibrosis in human heart failure at single-cell level	29
Increased protein S-nitrosylation in mitochondria: a key mechanism of exercise-induced cardioprotection	28
Fibro-fatty remodelling in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	27
Forebrain corticosteroid receptors promote post-myocardial infarction depression and mortality	27
Loss of NPPA-AS1 promotes heart regeneration by stabilizing SFPQ–NONO heteromer-induced DNA repair	26
Osteopontin promotes infarct repair	26
Molecular imaging of the brain–heart axis provides insights into cardiac dysfunction after cerebral ischemia	25

Reduction of A-to-I RNA editing in the failing human heart regulates formation of circular RNAs	24
IMproving Preclinical Assessment of Cardioprotective Therapies (IMPACT) criteria: guidelines of the EU-CARDIOPROTECTION COST Action	23
Cardiomyocyte p38 MAPKα suppresses a heart–adipose tissue–neutrophil crosstalk in heart failure development	23
Coronary blood flow in heart failure: cause, consequence and bystander	23
Effect of remote ischaemic conditioning on infarct size and remodelling in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients: the CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI CMR substudy	22
RGS3L allows for an M2 muscarinic receptor-mediated RhoA-dependent inotropy in cardiomyocytes	20
Bone marrow-derived naïve B lymphocytes improve heart function after myocardial infarction: a novel cardioprotective mechanism for empagliflozin	20
Non-responsiveness to cardioprotection by ischaemic preconditioning in Ossabaw minipigs with genetic predisposition to, but without the phenotype of the metabolic syndrome	20
Prolonged cardiac NR4A2 activation causes dilated cardiomyopathy in mice	19
Remote ischaemic conditioning: defining critical criteria for success—report from the 11th Hatter Cardiovascular Workshop	19
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?	17
Cardiac dysfunction from cancer and cancer therapy: new pathways for the prevention of late cardiotoxicity	16
Doxorubicin induces cardiotoxicity in a pluripotent stem cell model of aggressive B cell lymphoma cancer patients	16
Remote Ischemic Conditioning: more explanations and more expectations	16