OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
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Changes in phrenic nerve compound muscle action potential in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats	21
Examining the haemodynamic repercussions of ventilator hyperinflation in elderly patients: An explanatory study	21
Phrenic-to-intercostal reflex activity in response to high frequency spinal cord stimulation (HF-SCS)	21
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The pre-Bötzinger complex is necessary for the expression of inspiratory and post-inspiratory motor discharge of the vagus	20
Glycemic and lactate thresholds during incremental inspiratory muscle exercise: Is there agreement?	20
Vagal cardiac control in rats with LPS-induced lung injury	19
Invasive ventilation at the boundary of viability: A respiratory pathophysiology study of infants born between 22 and 24 weeks of gestation	18
Modality of tracheal sensory inputs modulate swallowing reflexibility and discharge patterns of neurons of the dorsal swallowing group in rats	18
Impact of physical functional capacity on quality of life in patients with interstitial lung diseases	18
Pelvic floor muscle length changes with breathing in males: A preliminary report	17
Preventive effects of hesperidin in an experimental model ofs acute lung inflammation	17
Modulating respiratory mechanics and inflammation in hepatopulmonary syndrome: Aerobic exercise as a therapeutic strategy	17
Axonal projection of the medullary expiratory neurons in the feline thoracic spinal cord	16
Heat stress affects breathing and metabolism of chicks incubated at high temperature	16
Differential inhibition of cough by GABAA and GABAB receptor antagonists in the nucleus of the solitary tract in cats	16
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Cinnamaldehyde modulates oxidative stress and NF-κB signaling in OVA-induced asthmatic BALB/c mice	15
Changes in cough motor output during repetitive mechanical stimulation of the tracheobronchial tree in cats	15
Systemic arterial blood pressure regulation during hyperoxic CO2 rebreathing in young females and males	13
Breathing pattern alteration from weanling to old age in male Sprague-Dawley rats	13
Work rate domain analysis of V̇O2 kinetics using the second-order simultaneous components model: Challenging the etiology of the “slow component”	13
Impaired diffusion at submaximal lung inflation in asthma and copd patients	13
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Prior self-control exertion decreases pre-frontal cortex oxygenation during a CO rebreathing challenge but does not affect perceptions of dyspnoea or tolerance time	12
Effects of lung volume and trigeminal nerve stimulation on diving response in breath-hold divers and non-divers	12
MiR-21 modulates proliferation and apoptosis of human airway smooth muscle cells by regulating autophagy via PARP-1/AMPK/mTOR signalling pathway	12
Pulmonary stretch receptor modulation of synaptic inhibition shapes the discharge pattern of respiratory premotor neurons	12
Modelling the distribution of the oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve in vivo: An observational study	12
Lung function parameters are associated with acute mountain sickness and are improved at high and extreme altitude	11
Post-Exertion Rate of Reperfusion vs Point-by-Point analysis of skeletal tissue near-infrared spectroscopy during repeated fatigue recovery under normoxia and hypoxemia	11
Effects of centipedic acid on acute lung injury: A dose-response study in a murine model	11
Effects of inspiratory muscle training on thoracoabdominal volume regulation in older adults: A randomised controlled trial	11
Multiple sensor theory in airway mechanosensory units	10
Tobacco smoking: A stimulus for blood volume expansion	10
Microinjection of kynurenic acid and lidocaine into the dorsal motor nucleus of vagus evokes airway smooth muscle relaxation in ferrets	10
The acute effect of slow deep breathing variation techniques on ventilatory capacity and inspiratory muscle endurance	10
The effect of stimulation and unloading of baroreceptors on cough in experimental conditions	10
Optimising the Dyspnoea Challenge: exertional dyspnoea responses to changing treadmill gradients	10
Serial fractional exhaled nitric oxide measurements at and off work may help to identify immunologic occupational asthma in cases with complex exposures	10
Elevated risk of dyspnea in adults with obesity	10
Metabolism and respiration in skin burn injury in rats: Corrective effects of melatonin	10
Pathophysiology of hypoxemia in mechanically-ventilated patients with COVID-19: A computed tomography study	9
Impact of trigeminal nerve and/or olfactory nerve stimulation on activity of human brain regions involved in the perception of breathlessness	9
Breath-hold diving as a tool to harness a beneficial increase in cardiac vagal tone	9
Stress stimulation promotes the injury repair process of airway epithelial cells through the [Cl−]i−FAK signaling axis	9
Low and sustained doses of erythropoietin prevent preterm infants from intraventricular hemorrhage	9
Difference in expiratory flow limitations development in normoxia and hypoxia in healthy individuals	9
Effects of sildenafil on gas exchange, ventilatory, and sensory responses to exercise in subjects with mild-to-moderate COPD: A randomized cross-over trial	8
Oscillation mechanics in adults with cystic fibrosis: Effect of airway obstruction and detection of early dysfunction	8
Skeletal muscle oxygenation and exercise intolerance in hemodialysis: Navigating toward promising horizons?	8
The influence of different spontaneous breathing trials on regional ventilation distribution in patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation	8
Sex differences in the cardiovascular and ventilatory responses to arm or leg mechanoreflex activation	8
Efficiency of exogenous surfactant combined with intravenous N-acetylcysteine in two-hit rodent model of ARDS	8
Respiratory characterization of a humanized Duchenne muscular dystrophy mouse model	8
Effects of DNA methylase inhibitors in a murine model of severe BPD	8
Indoor air quality – An overview of methods for measuring odor detection thresholds of single substances	8
Using the gli spirographic prediction equations to revisit the allometric relationships between lung volumes, height and age in adults	8
End-tidal CO2 and ventilation: Novel markers for assessing performance levels in elite long-distance runners	8
GAA replacement improves respiratory muscle, neural, and alveolar pathology in the pompe mouse	8
Low level CO2 supplementation maintains isocapnia and reveals ventilatory long-term facilitation in rats	8
Roflumilast, a phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibitor, induces respiratory frequency plasticity that is resistant to inflammation in neonatal rat in vitro preparations	8
Chemogenetic activation of the diaphragm after spinal cord injury in rats	8
Two-day cardiopulmonary exercise testing in long COVID post-exertional malaise diagnosis	7
Cough and swallow after laparotomy in anesthetized cats	7
Corrigendum to “Characterisation of acute hypoxic response using breath variability parameters: A pilot study” [Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 315 (2023) 104096]	7
Electromyographic activity and coordination of accessory respiratory muscles during increased breathing effort in healthy adults	7
Sensitivity of the airway smooth muscle in terms of force, shortening and stiffness	7
Lung function responses to cold water ingestion: A randomised controlled crossover trial	7
Developmental nicotine exposure eliminates the ventilatory response to a brief episode of severe hypoxia, independently of sex	7
Description of three dysfunctional breathing patterns in post-COVID dyspnea	7
On pulse oximetry and hypoxia	6
Disinhibition does not play a role in endomorphin-2-induced changes in inspiratory motoneuron output produced by in vitro neonatal rat preparations	6
Age influences the specific force and fatigability of the external abdominal obliques but not pectoralis major muscles	6

Description of automatic-voluntary dissociation of breathing in multiple sclerosis	6
In silico investigation of inhalation condition impacts on hygroscopic growth and deposition of salbutamol sulphate in human airways	6
Airway epithelial cells promote in vitro airway smooth muscle cell proliferation by activating the Wnt/β-catenin pathway	6
Differential neuromotor control of the vertical and longitudinal genioglossus muscle fibers: An overlooked tongue retractor	6
Regulation of vagally-evoked respiratory responses by the lateral parabrachial nucleus in the mouse	6
High flow nasal oxygen and awake prone positioning – Two allies against COVID-19: A systematic review	6
Adipokines in interstitial lung diseases	6
Acrolein-induced oxidative and nitrosative stress and its impact on respiratory mechanics in mice assessed using the forced oscillation technique	5
Lung mechanics during recovery of a non-invasively ventilated patient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia	5
Revisiting Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ventilation management: Time for a paradigm shift focusing on tidal volume	5
Strain-specific metabolomic and inflammatory profiles in guinea pigs after LPS-induced inflammation: Comparative analysis of Dunkin-Hartley and Trik strains	5
Effect of superior laryngeal nerve stimulation on swallowing and respiratory coordination in dexmedetomidine-administered adult rats	5
Analysis of the structure and surfactant activity of formulations with exogenous pulmonary surfactant as an antibiotic carrier	5
Fenofibrate attenuates asthma features in an ovalbumin-induced mouse model via suppressing NF-κB binding activity	5
Fentanyl and neostigmine delivered to mouse prefrontal cortex differentially alter breathing	5
A machine learning approach to predicting dyspnea with noninvasive biomarkers	5
Effects of TRPV4 channel blocker on airway inflammation and airway defense reflexes in experimentally induced model of allergic asthma	5
Altered renin-angiotensin system gene expression in airways of antigen-challenged mice: ACE2 downregulation and unexpected increase in angiotensin 1–7	5
Respiratory effects of obesity on the ventilatory response to exercise in older adults: the impact of a shift in operational lung volumes	5
Nasal cycling effects in intranasal drug delivery efficiency to the olfactory cleft	5
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Quantification of shunt fraction using contrast ultrasound and indicator dilution in an in vitro model	5
Simvastatin attenuates inflammatory process on LPS-induced acute lung injury in mice	5
Characterisation of the acute hypoxic response using breathing variability parameters: A pilot study in humans	5
Computational fluid dynamics assessed changes of nasal airflow after inferior turbinate surgery	5
Influence of chronic hypoxia on the hypoxic ventilatory response of juvenile and adult rats	4
Respiratory physiological exploration during self-induced cognitive trance	4
Pulmonary recovery directly after COVID-19 and in Long-COVID	4
Early effects of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells on lung and kidney in experimental sepsis	4
Combination of acute intermittent hypoxia and intermittent transcutaneous electrical stimulation in obstructive sleep apnea: a randomized controlled crossover trial	4
Apnea behavior in early- and late-stage mouse models of Parkinson's disease: Cineradiographic analysis of spontaneous breathing, acute stress, and swallowing	4
Swallowing disorder – A possible therapeutic target for preventing COPD exacerbations	4
Pi-based mechanism of muscle fatigue during all-out exercise in humans	4
Development of periodic breathing in awake healthy individuals under controlled progressive hypoxia	4
Diethelm Richter (1943–2025); A life in respiratory neurobiology	4
Diaphragm stimulation elicits phrenic afferent-induced neuromuscular plasticity	4
TRPA1 contributes to respiratory depression from tobacco aerosol	4
Dysanapsis is a determinant of expiratory flow limitation during exercise in master athletes	4
Effectiveness of selective NaV1.7 blocker PF-05089771 in reducing cough associated with allergic rhinitis in guinea pigs	4
Influence of combined voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7 and NaV1.8 inhibitors on cough in a guinea pig model	4
Corrigendum to “Ethanol abolishes ventilatory long-term facilitation and blunts the ventilatory response to hypoxia in female rats” [Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 332 (2024) 104373]	4
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Impact of mechanical ventilation on oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, memory and anxiety related behavior: Insights from an experimental model	4
Airway mechanics alters generation of cough motor pattern	4
Eupneic respiratory pattern and ventilatory responses to environmental CO2 in a small lizard, Anolis carolinensis	4
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The change in phase shift between respiratory oscillations of mean arterial pressure and heart rate in head-up tilt test: The effect of simulated microgravity	4
Daytime CO₂ normalization with home ventilation in neuromuscular disease: No improvement in central respiratory drive	4