OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroreport is 4. 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
Altered expression of transfer RNAs and their possible roles in brain white matter injury	21
Dexmedetomidine alleviates propofol-induced pyroptosis of hippocampal neurons through NLRP3 inflammasome pathway	21
Aberrant cerebral intrinsic activity and cerebro-cerebellar functional connectivity in right temporal lobe epilepsy: a resting-state functional MRI study	21
Adipose-derived stem cell transplantation enhances spinal cord regeneration by upregulating PGRN expression	18
Visual recognition of identical cognates involves sublexical inhibition and lexical facilitation	17
Approach of visual stimuli facilitates the prediction of tactile events and suppresses beta band oscillations around the primary somatosensory area	17
LB100 attenuates methamphetamine-induced behavioral sensitization by inhibiting the Raf1-ERK 1/2 cascade in the caudate putamen	16
Bioinformatics analysis and identification of genes and molecular pathways involved in Parkinson’s disease in patients with mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene	15
Comparative study of the reorganization in bilateral motor and sensory cortices after spinal cord hemisection in mice	15
Event-related potentials reveal that bilinguals are more efficient in resolving conflict than monolinguals	15
GABAergic retinal ganglion cells regulate innate defensive responses	14
Effect of positive emotions on perceptual processing of visual probes	14
Simultaneous treatment with pentoxifylline does not adversely affect the neurotrophic effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor on spiral ganglion neurons	13
Mice heterozygous for the Serpinb6a null mutation show deficits in central auditory function after acoustic trauma	13
LncRNA RP11-390F4.3 inhibits invasion and migration of glioblastoma cells by downregulating ROCK1	12
Hippocampal proteins discovery of diabetes-induced central neuropathy based on proteomics	12
Precise oculocentric mapping of transcranial magnetic stimulation-evoked phosphenes	11
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves neurological function via the p38-MAPK/CCL2 signaling pathway following traumatic brain injury	11
High-frequency ultrasound exposure improves depressive-like behavior in an olfactory bulbectomized rat model of depression	11
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation decreased effortful frontal activity for shifting in patients with major depressive disorder	10
A delay-specific neural indicator corresponds to delay-discounting behavior for both gain and loss	10
Unitization congruence moderates the effect of unitization on associative recognition: evidence from event-related potentials	10
Language specificity in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences	10
Xanthohumol protect cognitive performance in diabetic model rats by inhibiting protein kinase B/nuclear factor kappa-B pathway	10
Deletion of MyD88 adaptor in nociceptor alleviates low-dose formalin-induced acute pain and persistent pain in mice	10

Neural response during temporal – and spatial luminance contrast processing and its manifestation in the blood-oxygen-level-dependent-signal in striate and extra-striate cortex	10
How does negative evidence impact argument strength during semantic category-based induction? An event-related potential study	10
High mobility group box 1 is involved in the pathogenesis of passive transfer myasthenia gravis model	10
The dissociating of reward feedback on familiarity and recollection processing: evidence from event-related potential	9
Alterations in amperometric cholinergic signals accompanied by synaptic plasticity and γ oscillations in the hippocampus-medial prefrontal cortex pathway	9
Sex differences in the aging brain? A voxel-based morphometry analysis of the hippocampus and the amygdala	9
Effects of exercise and bryostatin-1 on functional recovery and posttranslational modification in the perilesional cortex after cerebral infarction	9
Extracellular application of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor allosteric modulator rapastinel acts remotely to regulate Ca2+ inactivation at an intracellular locus	9
Ferroptosis involved in sevoflurane-aggravated young rats brain injury induced by liver transplantation	9
Microstructural white matter changes in chronic migraine patients with liver-yang hyperactivity and qi-blood deficiency syndrome: a diffusion tensor imaging study	8
Higher betweenness and degree centrality in the frontal and cerebellum cortex of Meige’s syndrome patients than hemifacial spasm patients	8
Inhibiting miR-186-5p relieves traumatic brain injury by regulating insulin-like growth factor-I-NLRP3/ASC/caspase-1 signaling pathway	8
Pigmented Long-Evans rats demonstrate better visual ability than albino Wistar rats in slow angles-descent forepaw grasping test	8
Galectin-3 ablation does not affect infarct size or inflammatory cytokines after experimental stroke in 24-month-old female mice	8
Optimized N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist exhibits hippocampal proneurogenic effects in aged senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 mice	8
Altered functional connectivity between the default mode network in diabetic retinopathy patients	8
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on the motor inhibitory process in the go/no-go task in humans: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	8
UPLC-Q-TOF/MS-based plasma metabolome to identify biomarkers and time of injury in traumatic brain injured rats	7
Ethanol depresses neurons in the lateral parabrachial nucleus by potentiating pre- and postsynaptic GABAA receptors	7
Analysis of functional MRI signal complexity based on permutation fuzzy entropy in bipolar disorder	7
Dispersing attentional resources reduces negative emotions	7
Relationship between the tau protein and choroid plexus volume in Alzheimer’s disease	7
Effects of donepezil on the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in the brain of patients with Alzheimer’s disease: evidence from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging	7
Ginsenoside Rg1 alleviates sleep deprivation-induced learning and memory impairment by inhibiting excessive neuronal apoptosis in zebrafish	7
Inhibition of miR-221-3p promotes axonal regeneration and repair of primary sensory neurons via regulating p27 expression	7
Hispolon inhibits neuronal ferroptosis by promoting the expression of Nrf-2	6
Myelin basic proteins charge isomers interact differently with the peptidyl arginine deiminase-2	6
Sestrin2 attenuates depressive-like behaviors and neuroinflammation in CUMS mice through inhibiting ferroptosis	6
Differences in brain functional connectivity between tinnitus with or without hearing loss	6
Impact of excessive sucrose intake on mouse behavior across different developmental stages	6
Sortilin inhibition in microglial cells cannot alleviate ischemia and hypoxia-induced neuronal injury in co-culture	6
Annexin A1 conveys neuroprotective function via inhibiting oxidative stress in diffuse axonal injury of rats	6
Effects of finger pinch motor imagery on short-latency afferent inhibition and corticospinal excitability	6
Differences in the antinociceptive effects of serotonin–noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors via sodium channel blockade using the veratrine test in mice	6
Gender differences in pedestrian hazard perception: evidence from an event-related potential study	6
Neurovascular protection of salvianolic acid B and ginsenoside Rg1 combination against acute ischemic stroke in rats	6
The effects of different types of emotion words on emotion picture processing – evidence from event-related potential	6
Exercise alters molecular rhythms in the central nervous system that negatively correlate with depression-like behavior	6
Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) ameliorates early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage in Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats via inhibiting STING-NLRP3 inflammatory signaling	6
Healthy and pathological pallidal regulation of thalamic burst versus tonic mode firing: a computational simulation	6
Alterations in dynamic regional homogeneity within default mode network in patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy	6
Ginsenoside Rg1 protects the blood–brain barrier and myelin sheath to prevent postoperative cognitive dysfunction in aged mice	6
Therapeutic effect of anti-HMGB1 antibody in a mouse model of 4-h middle cerebral artery occlusion: comparison with tissue plasminogen activator	6
20(S)-Ginsenoside Rh1 alleviates sevoflurane-induced ototoxicity by reducing oxidative stress levels	5
Electroacupuncture reduces corpus callosum injury in rats with permanent cerebral ischemia by inhibiting the activation of high-mobility group box 1 protein and the receptor for advanced glycation end	5
The possible role of biochanin A in ameliorating endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced leptin resistance	5
Long non-coding RNA MEG3 alleviates postoperative cognitive dysfunction by suppressing inflammatory response and oxidative stress via has-miR-106a-5p/SIRT3	5
miR-128-3p inhibits the inflammation by targeting MAPK6 in penicillin-induced astrocytes	5
Effect of early postmenopause and premenopause on resting-state electroencephalographic and their correlation with ovarian hormone levels	5
Notoginsenoside R1 alleviates spinal cord injury by inhibiting oxidative stress, neuronal apoptosis, and inflammation via activating the nuclear factor erythroid 2 related factor 2/heme oxygenase-1 si	5

Curcumin protects from LPS-induced activation of astrocytes via AMPK pathway	5
Reduction of acute radiation-induced brain injury in rats by anlotinib	5
Altered functional connectivity between the default mode network in primary angle-closure glaucoma patients	5
The brain state of motor imagery is reflected in the causal information of functional near-infrared spectroscopy	5
Evidence for residual SARS-CoV-2 in glioblastoma tissue of a convalescent patient	5
Identification of adrenergic presynaptic and postsynaptic protein locations at neuromuscular junctions, their decrease during aging, and recovery by nicotinamide mononucleotide administration	5
Adaptation-induced sharpening of orientation tuning curves in the mouse visual cortex	5
Activation of PPARγ prevents ferroptosis-induced damage through Nrf2/Gpx4 signaling pathway in rat hippocampus following epilepsy	5
Progesterone induces neuroprotection associated with immune/inflammatory modulation in experimental traumatic brain injury	5
The mechanism of inhibition control in mathematical reasoning: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study	5
Altered cognitive control network mediates the association between long-term pain and anxiety symptoms in primary dysmenorrhea	5
HnRNP F and hnRNP H1 regulate mRNA stability of amyloid precursor protein	5
The activation of AMPK/PGC-1α/GLUT4 signaling pathway through early exercise improves mitochondrial function and mitigates ischemic brain damage	5
Poria cocos polysaccharide attenuates damage of nervus in Alzheimer’s disease rat model induced by D-galactose and aluminum trichloride	5
Cigarette craving modulation is more feasible than resistance modulation for heavy cigarette smokers: empirical evidence from functional MRI data	5
Maternal corticosteroids and depression during gestation and decreased fetal heart rate variability	5
Functional connectivity between the habenula and posterior default mode network contributes to the response of the duloxetine effect in major depressive disorder	5
Antisense oligonucleotides targeting alternative splicing of Nrcam exon 10 suppress neurite outgrowth of ganglion sensory neurons in vitro	4
Modulation of prefrontal cortex function by basal forebrain cholinergic and GABAergic neurons at the behavioral and molecular level	4
Spatiotemporal expression of Rap1 and Ras mediates the acquisition and reinstatement of methamphetamine-induced conditioned place preference in mice via extracellular signal-regulated kinase activatio	4
Tactile sensorimotor training does not alter short- and long-latency afferent inhibition	4
Mild traumatic brain injury elicits time- and region-specific reductions in serotonin transporter protein expression and uptake capacity	4
High mobility group box 1 promotes the differentiation of spinal ependymal cells into astrocytes rather than neurons	4
Thalamic shape abnormalities in patients with multiple sclerosis-related fatigue	4
Effect of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation combined with motor imagery on the corticospinal excitability of antagonist muscles	4
Paternal stress in rats increased oxytocin, oxytocin receptor, and arginine vasopressin gene expression in the male offspring amygdala with no effect on their social interaction behaviors	4
Ethanol and opioids do not act synergistically to depress excitation in carotid body type I cells	4
Salvianolic acid B protects against MPP+-induced neuronal injury via repressing oxidative stress and restoring mitochondrial function	4
Chronic valproic acid administration enhances oxidative stress, upregulates IL6 and downregulates Nrf2, Glut1 and Glut4 in rat’s liver and brain	4
Disrupted functional connectivity of the striatum in patients with diffuse axonal injury: a resting-state functional MRI study	4
PEG-PEI/siROCK2 inhibits Aβ42-induced microglial inflammation via NLRP3/caspase 1 pathway	4
TLR4-MyD88 signaling is involved in the spinal neurons during the full length of recovery from transection of the motor branch of the femoral nerve in mice	4
Auditory influence on stickiness perception: an fMRI study of multisensory integration	4
All-trans retinoic acid reduces mammalian target of rapamycin via a Sirtuin1-dependent mechanism in neurons	4
Sevoflurane modulation of tetrodotoxin-resistant Na+ channels in small-sized dorsal root ganglion neurons of rats	4
Effects of melatonin on phosphorylation of memory-related proteins in the hippocampus and the perirhinal cortex in male mice	4
Chronic multiple mild stress induces sustained adverse psychological states in rats	4
Three-dimensional multiple object tracking improves young adult cognitive abilities associated with driving: evidence for transfer to the useful field of view	4
Intracerebral hemorrhage influences hippocampal neurogenesis and neurological function recovery via Notch1 signaling	4
Weighted gene co-expression network analysis identifies specific modules and hub genes related to Parkinson’s disease	4
Differences in the neuronal correlation between the central and peripheral vision in the cat early visual cortex	4
Chronic food restriction enhances dopamine-mediated intracranial self-stimulation	4
MiR-140 promotes the progression of intracranial aneurysms by targeting BCL2L2	4
Inhibition of SIRT1 in the nucleus accumbens attenuates heroin addiction-related behavior by decreasing D1 neuronal autophagy	4
Cortical oscillatory changes during thermal grill illusion	4
Recursive structures modulate the electrophysiological correlates of visual perspective taking	4
Neural correlates of processing active and passive sentences: proficiency-dependent event-related potential evidence in Chinese English foreign language learners	4
White matter degeneration in diffuse axonal injury and mild traumatic brain injury observed with automatic tractography	4
The role of selective attention in Chinese emotional word processing: evidence from event-related potentials	4
Sympathetic blockage attenuates fasting-induced hepatic steatosis	4
Effects of the genetic knockout of the β-1,3-galactosyltransferase 2 on spatial learning and neurons in the adult mouse hippocampus and somatosensory cortex	4
Duloxetine alleviates oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy by regulating p53-mediated apoptosis	4
Abnormal intrinsic functional network hubs in diabetic retinopathy patients	4
Levodopa responsiveness in Parkinson’s disease patients and white matter alterations in diffusion tensor imaging: a cross-sectional tract-based spatial statistics study	4
Cerebral arterial fenestration associated with stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases	4
The effect of Iridoids effective fraction of Valeriana jatamansi Jones on movement function in rats after acute cord injury and the related mechanism	4
Increased endogenous reactive oxygen species normalizes proliferation defects of Bmi1 heterozygous knockout neural stem cells	4
Salient cues facilitate automatic processes in prospective memory	4
Ninjin’yoeito, a traditional Japanese Kampo medicine, suppresses the onset of anhedonia induced by dysfunction in the striatal dopamine receptor type 2-expressing medium spiny neurons	4
Amide proton transfer imaging in rats after heatstroke	4
Decreased spontaneous brain activity in the dorsal visual pathway in age-related macular degeneration patients revealed by fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation	4
Asymmetry of brain development in adolescent rats studied by 3.0 T magnetic resonance imaging	4
The association between glymphatic system dysfunction and alterations in cerebral function and structure in patients with white matter hyperintensities	4