TABLE 5.

| Top 10 cocitation 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	275
2	Sertoli-Sertoli and Sertoli-germ cell interactions and their significance in germ cell movement in the seminiferous epithelium during spermatogenesis	Mruk DD	Endocr Rev	2004	159
3	The Sertoli cell cytoskeleton	Vogl AW	Adv Exp Med Biol	2008	116
4	Androgens regulate the permeability of the blood-testis barrier	Meng J	Proc Natl Acad Sci United States	2005	115
5	Cell junction dynamics in the testis: Sertoli-germ cell interactions and male contraceptive development	Cheng CY	Physiol Rev	2002	106
6	A local autocrine axis in the testes that regulates spermatogenesis	Cheng CY	Nat Rev Endocrinol	2010	103
7	Blood-testis barrier dynamics are regulated by testosterone and cytokines via their differential effects on the kinetics of protein endocytosis and recycling in Sertoli cells	Yan HHN	FASEB J	2008	102
8	An in vitro system to study Sertoli cell blood-testis barrier dynamics	Mruk DD	Methods Mol Biol	2011	84
9	Spermiation: the process of sperm release	O’donnell Liza	Spermatogenesis	2011	84
10	The blood-testis barrier: the junctional permeability, the proteins and the lipids	Pelletier RM	Prog Histochem Cytochem	2011	83