OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology is 32. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparison of the effect of cigarette smoke on mesenchymal stem cells and dental stem cells	833
Does force depression resulting from shortening against series elasticity contribute to the activation dependence of optimum length?	260
O-GlcNAcylation regulates tyrosine hydroxylase serine 40 phosphorylation and L-DOPA levels	93
Chronic edible dosing of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in nonhuman primates reduces systemic platelet activity and function	86
Short-term metformin ingestion by healthy older adults improves myoblast function	80
Exploring the role of urinary extracellular vesicles in kidney physiology, aging, and disease progression	77
The senescence-associated secretory phenotype in ovarian cancer dissemination	74
Effect of the mitochondrial transaminase (GOT2) on membrane potential-sensitive respiration in mitochondria of differentiated C2C12 muscle cells	66
Extracellular BMP1 is the major proteinase for COOH-terminal proteolysis of type I procollagen in lung fibroblasts	60
Computational modeling of signal transduction networks without kinetic parameters: Petri net approaches	48
GRK2 promotes activation of lung fibroblast cells and contributes to pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis through increasing Smad3 expression	46
Getting sweeter: new evidence for glucose transporters in specific cell types of the airway?	45
The steep uphill path leading to ex vivo gene therapy for genodermatoses	45
The atlas of ACE2 expression in fetal and adult human hearts reveals the potential mechanism of heart-injured patients infected with SARS-CoV-2	45
Mitochondrial stress responses in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: metabolic dysfunction or adaptive reprogramming?	44
Physiologically relevant culture medium Plasmax improves human placental trophoblast stem cell function	44
Discovery of thymosin β4 as a human exerkine and growth factor	42
Inhibition of P110α and P110δ catalytic subunits of PI3 kinase reverses impaired arterial healing after injury in hypercholesterolemic male mice	41
MicroRNA-30e-3p reduces coronary microembolism-induced cardiomyocyte pyroptosis and inflammation by sequestering HDAC2 from the SMAD7 promoter	41
Ubiquitin E3 ligase Atrogin-1 protein is regulated via the rapamycin-sensitive mTOR-S6K1 signaling pathway in C2C12 muscle cells	40
Exogenous ketone esters as a potential therapeutic for treatment of sarcopenic obesity	39
Electrophysiological analysis of healthy and dystrophic 3-D bioengineered skeletal muscle tissues	39
GPR30 alleviated subarachnoid hemorrhage-induced blood-brain barrier dysfunction by activating the PI3K/Akt and Nrf2/HO-1 pathways	38
Time-of-day effects on ex vivo muscle contractility following short-term satellite cell ablation	37
Suppression of ventral hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neuronal activities enhances water intake	36

Diverse calcium signaling profiles regulate migratory behavior in avascular wound healing and aberrant signal hierarchy occurs early in diabetes	36
Rapid nutrient depletion to below the physiological range by cancer cells cultured in Plasmax	34
Loss of glucose-stimulated β-cell Nr4a1 expression impairs insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis	34
Free fatty acid treatment of mouse preimplantation embryos demonstrates contrasting effects of palmitic acid and oleic acid on autophagy	34
Modulating endothelial cell dynamics in fat grafting: the impact of DLL4 siRNA via adipose stem cell extracellular vesicles	34
Time of day affects MrgD-dependent modulation of cardiomyocyte contractility	34
Caveolin-3 regulates the activity of Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II in C2C12 cells	32
Role of proton-activated G protein-coupled receptors in pathophysiology	32
Relocation of phosphofructokinases within epithelial cells is a novel event preceding breast cancer recurrence that accurately predicts patient outcomes	32