OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMC Neuroscience is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
MMP9 modulation improves specific neurobehavioral deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease	32
Sex differences in neural responses to reward and the influences of individual reward and punishment sensitivity	28
Association between circle of Willis and ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis	28
The inflammatory profile of cerebrospinal fluid, plasma, and saliva from patients with severe neuropathic pain and healthy controls-a pilot study	22
Metformin attenuates LPS-induced neuronal injury and cognitive impairments by blocking NF-κB pathway	21
Knockout of the circadian gene, Per2, disrupts corticosterone secretion and results in depressive‐like behaviors and deficits in startle responses	19
High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) protects against ischemic stroke by inhibiting M1 microglia polarization through let-7b-5p/HMGA2/NF-κB signaling pathway	19
Oxytocin ameliorates impaired social behavior in a Chd8 haploinsufficiency mouse model of autism	19
A systematic review of common genetic variation and biological pathways in autism spectrum disorder	18
Calmodulin binding proteins and neuroinflammation in multiple neurodegenerative diseases	18
Paeonol regulates NLRP3 inflammasomes and pyroptosis to alleviate spinal cord injury of rat	18
Sustained delivery of chABC improves functional recovery after a spine injury	17
NRXN1α+/- is associated with increased excitability in ASD iPSC-derived neurons	17
Analysis of risk factors and preventive strategies for intracranial infection after neuroendoscopic transnasal pituitary adenoma resection	16
Cortical hemodynamics as a function of handgrip strength and cognitive performance: a cross-sectional fNIRS study in younger adults	15
Comparison of the effects of open vs. closed skill exercise on the acute and chronic BDNF, IGF-1 and IL-6 response in older healthy adults	15
Activation of autophagy inhibits the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome and alleviates sevoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction in elderly rats	15
Saccharomyces boulardii improves the behaviour and emotions of spastic cerebral palsy rats through the gut-brain axis pathway	14
Association between the vertebrobasilar artery geometry and basilar artery plaques determined by high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging	13
Sirt1 protects against hippocampal atrophy and its induced cognitive impairment in middle-aged mice	13
The effect of a novel anticonvulsant chemical Q808 on gut microbiota and hippocampus neurotransmitters in pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rats	13
Impacts of autofluorescence on fluorescence based techniques to study microglia	13
Post-status epilepticus treatment with the Fyn inhibitor, saracatinib, improves cognitive function in mice	12
Differential effects of rat ADSCs encapsulation in fibrin matrix and combination delivery of BDNF and Gold nanoparticles on peripheral nerve regeneration	12
Behavioral sensitization induced by methamphetamine causes differential alterations in gene expression and histone acetylation of the prefrontal cortex in rats	12

Docosahexaenoic fatty acid reduces the pro‐inflammatory response induced by IL-1β in astrocytes through inhibition of NF-κB and AP-1 transcription factor activation	12
Heat-inactivated Lacticaseibacillus paracasei N1115 alleviates the damage due to brain function caused by long-term antibiotic cocktail exposure in mice	12
NLRP3 inflammasome regulates astrocyte transformation in brain injury induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia	12
Phenotypic overlap between atopic dermatitis and autism	12
Laser speckle contrast imaging for blood flow monitoring in predicting outcomes after cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice	11
Transcranial direct current stimulation for balance and gait in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in rats	11
Eosinophil-to-monocyte ratio is a potential biomarker in the prediction of functional outcome among patients with acute ischemic stroke	11
Crossed cerebellar diaschisis after stroke detected noninvasively by arterial spin-labeling MR imaging	11
Distraction by a cognitive task has a higher impact on electrophysiological measures compared with conditioned pain modulation	11
Effects of electrical muscle stimulation on cerebral blood flow	10
Metformin attenuates sepsis-induced neuronal injury and cognitive impairment	10
Evaluating a new verbal working memory-balance program: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial study on Iranian children with dyslexia	10
Therapeutic potential of hair follicle-derived stem cell intranasal transplantation in a rat model of ischemic stroke	10
The disrupted topological properties of structural networks showed recovery in ischemic stroke patients: a longitudinal design study	10
Spatiotemporal evolution of pyroptosis and canonical inflammasome pathway in hSOD1G93A ALS mouse model	9
Ammonia induced microglia activation was associated with limited effects on connexin 43 and aquaporin 4 expression in an astrocyte-microglia co-culture model	9
Morphine-induced changes in the function of microglia and macrophages after acute spinal cord injury	9
High frequencies (HF) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) increase motor coordination performances in volleyball players	9
Enriched environment ameliorates adult hippocampal neurogenesis deficits in Tcf4 haploinsufficient mice	9
Sex-dimorphic neuroestradiol regulation of ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus glucoregulatory transmitter and glycogen metabolism enzyme protein expression in the rat	9
Ceftriaxone therapy attenuates brain trauma in rats by affecting glutamate transporters and neuroinflammation and not by its antibacterial effects	9
Diagnosis of schizophrenia with functional connectome data: a graph-based convolutional neural network approach	9
Baseline neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio can be associated with hematoma expansion in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage: a retrospective observational study	9
Comparative analysis of spreading depolarizations in brain slices exposed to osmotic or metabolic stress	9
Involvement of kynurenine pathway between inflammation and glutamate in the underlying etiopathology of CUMS-induced depression mouse model	8
Construction of competitive endogenous RNA network reveals regulatory role of long non-coding RNAs in intracranial aneurysm	8
Increased expression of pathological markers in Parkinson’s disease dementia post-mortem brains compared to dementia with Lewy bodies	8
Activation of the IL-17/TRAF6/NF-κB pathway is implicated in Aβ-induced neurotoxicity	8
Memantine ameliorates cognitive deficit in AD mice via enhancement of entorhinal–CA1 projection	8
Stressor controllability modulates the stress response in fish	8
Protective effects of intracerebroventricular adiponectin against olfactory impairments in an amyloid β1–42 rat model	8
A circular RNA derived from GLIS3 accelerates the proliferation of glioblastoma cells through competitively binding with miR-449c-5p to upregulate CAPG and GLIS3	7
Inhibitory control training reveals a common neurofunctional basis for generic executive functions and language switching in bilinguals	7
Anodal tDCS over the left DLPFC but not M1 increases muscle activity and improves psychophysiological responses, cognitive function, and endurance performance in normobaric hypoxia: a randomized contr	7
Identification of hub genes in the subacute spinal cord injury in rats	7
Sex effects on clinical features in LRRK2 G2385R carriers and non-carriers in Parkinson's disease	7
The role of mGlu4 receptors within the nucleus accumbens in acquisition and expression of morphine-induced conditioned place preference in male rats	7
Causal relationship of CA3 back-projection to the dentate gyrus and its role in CA1 fast ripple generation	7
In vivo oxygen measurement in cerebrospinal fluid of pigs to determine physiologic and pathophysiologic oxygen values during CNS infections	7
Early postnatal irradiation‐induced age‐dependent changes in adult mouse brain: MRI based characterization	7
Cascade process mediated by left hippocampus and left superior frontal gyrus affects relationship between aging and cognitive dysfunction	6
Chronic, acute and protocol-dependent effects of exercise on psycho-physiological health during long-term isolation and confinement	6
Mechanism of LSD1 in oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation-induced pyroptosis of retinal ganglion cells via the miR-21-5p/NLRP12 axis	6
Eye movement characteristics in male patients with deficit and non-deficit schizophrenia and their relationships with psychiatric symptoms and cognitive function	6
Effects of melatonin-pretreated adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in an animal model of spinal cord injury	6
Effect of increased positive end-expiratory pressure on intracranial pressure and cerebral oxygenation: impact of respiratory mechanics and hypovolemia	6
Early differentiation of neurodegenerative diseases using the novel QSM technique: what is the biomarker of each disorder?	6
Concentrations of estradiol, progesterone and testosterone in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage correlate weakly with transcranial Doppler flow velociti	6
Mini review: Current status and perspective of S100B protein as a biomarker in daily clinical practice for diagnosis and prognosticating of clinical outcome in patients with neurological diseases with	6
Stress-induced HPA activation in virtual navigation and spatial attention performance	6

Sodium formononetin-3'-sulphonate alleviates cerebral ischemia–reperfusion injury in rats via suppressing endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated apoptosis