TABLE 4.
| Top 10 citation analysis of documents on blood-testis barrier.
| Rank | Title | First author | Source | Publication year | Total citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The blood-testis barrier and its implications for male contraception | Cheng CY | Pharmacol Rev | 2012 | 430 |
| 2 | The regulation of spermatogenesis by androgens | Smith LB | Semin Cell Dev Biol | 2014 | 324 |
| 3 | The Mammalian Blood-Testis Barrier: Its Biology and Regulation | Mruk DD | Endocr Rev | 2015 | 228 |
| 4 | The blood-testis and blood-epididymis barriers are more than just their tight junctions | Mital P | Biol Reprod | 2011 | 225 |
| 5 | The Sertoli cell: one hundred 50 years of beauty and plasticity | França LR | Andrology | 2016 | 184 |
| 6 | Immunological, paracrine and endocrine aspects of testicular immune privilege | Meinhardt A | Mol Cell Endocrinol | 2011 | 152 |
| 7 | Impacts of environmental toxicants on male reproductive dysfunction | Wong EW | Trends Pharmacol Sci | 2011 | 142 |
| 8 | Sertoli cells--immunological sentinels of spermatogenesis | Kaur G | Semin Cell Dev Biol | 2014 | 119 |
| 9 | Germ cell migration across Sertoli cell tight junctions | Smith BE | Science | 2012 | 115 |
| 10 | The blood-testis barrier: the junctional permeability, the proteins and the lipids | Pelletier RM | Prog Histochem Cytochem | 2011 | 111 |