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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Endothelial actions of atrial natriuretic peptide prevent pulmonary hypertension in mice	141
Endothelial ACKR3 drives atherosclerosis by promoting immune cell adhesion to vascular endothelium	109
Spinal cord astrocytes regulate myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	93
Alkaline nucleoplasm facilitates contractile gene expression in the mammalian heart	90
Tachycardiomyopathy entails a dysfunctional pattern of interrelated mitochondrial functions	71
Erythrocytes from patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction induce cardioprotection through the purinergic P2Y13 receptor and nitric oxide signaling	71
Elevated platelet–leukocyte complexes are associated with, but dispensable for myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury	60
Development and characterization of anti-fibrotic natural compound similars with improved effectivity	59
Publisher Correction: Transcriptome-wide association study of coronary artery disease identifies novel susceptibility genes	50
Desmin intermediate filaments and tubulin detyrosination stabilize growing microtubules in the cardiomyocyte	44
New insights into cardioprotection, gained by adopting the CAESAR standards of rigor	44
Retraction Note to: Amphiregulin enhances cardiac fibrosis and aggravates cardiac dysfunction in mice with experimental myocardial infarction partly through activating EGFR‑dependent pathway	39
Cardiomyocyte Na+ and Ca2+ mishandling drives vicious cycle involving CaMKII, ROS, and ryanodine receptors	36
On the cellular origin of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs)	36
Uncovering the molecular identity of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) by single-cell RNA sequencing	34
Mechanism of the switch from NO to H2O2 in endothelium-dependent vasodilation in diabetes	33
Reverse re-modelling chronic heart failure by reinstating heart rate variability	31
Distributed synthesis of sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane proteins in cardiac myocytes	30
Mitochondrial nucleoid in cardiac homeostasis: bidirectional signaling of mitochondria and nucleus in cardiac diseases	29
Resolving the intertwining of inflammation and fibrosis in human heart failure at single-cell level	28
Increased protein S-nitrosylation in mitochondria: a key mechanism of exercise-induced cardioprotection	27
Fibro-fatty remodelling in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	27
Osteopontin promotes infarct repair	26
Forebrain corticosteroid receptors promote post-myocardial infarction depression and mortality	26
Reduction of A-to-I RNA editing in the failing human heart regulates formation of circular RNAs	25

Loss of NPPA-AS1 promotes heart regeneration by stabilizing SFPQ–NONO heteromer-induced DNA repair	23
Molecular imaging of the brain–heart axis provides insights into cardiac dysfunction after cerebral ischemia	23
IMproving Preclinical Assessment of Cardioprotective Therapies (IMPACT) criteria: guidelines of the EU-CARDIOPROTECTION COST Action	22
Coronary blood flow in heart failure: cause, consequence and bystander	22
Cardiomyocyte p38 MAPKα suppresses a heart–adipose tissue–neutrophil crosstalk in heart failure development	22
Non-responsiveness to cardioprotection by ischaemic preconditioning in Ossabaw minipigs with genetic predisposition to, but without the phenotype of the metabolic syndrome	20
Effect of remote ischaemic conditioning on infarct size and remodelling in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients: the CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI CMR substudy	20
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
RGS3L allows for an M2 muscarinic receptor-mediated RhoA-dependent inotropy in cardiomyocytes	19
Reduced nitric oxide bioavailability impairs myocardial oxygen balance during exercise in swine with multiple risk factors	18
LncRNA LncHrt preserves cardiac metabolic homeostasis and heart function by modulating the LKB1-AMPK signaling pathway	17
Prolonged cardiac NR4A2 activation causes dilated cardiomyopathy in mice	16
Single-cell transcriptomic identified HIF1A as a target for attenuating acute rejection after heart transplantation	16
Cardiac dysfunction from cancer and cancer therapy: new pathways for the prevention of late cardiotoxicity	15
Remote Ischemic Conditioning: more explanations and more expectations	15
Innate immune cells in the pathophysiology of calcific aortic valve disease: lessons to be learned from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease?	15