| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A peripheral mononeuropathy in rat that produces disorders of pain sensation like those seen in man | Pain | 1988 | 4,621 |
| 2 | A new and sensitive method for measuring thermal nociception in cutaneous hyperalgesia | Pain | 1988 | 4,531 |
| 3 | A MEDIUM FOR THE CULTIVATION OF LACTOBACILLI | Journal of Applied Bacteriology | 1960 | 4,279 |
| 4 | Conversion of Peripheral CD4+CD25− Naive T Cells to CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells by TGF-β Induction of Transcription Factor Foxp3 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2003 | 4,213 |
| 5 | Modulating Innate and Adaptive Immunity by (R)-Roscovitine: Potential Therapeutic Opportunity in Cystic Fibrosis | Journal of Innate Immunity | 2016 | 3,509 |
| 6 | Periodontal diseases | Lancet, The | 2005 | 3,015 |
| 7 | Investigation of multipotent postnatal stem cells from human periodontal ligament | Lancet, The | 2004 | 2,920 |
| 8 | Taking Cell-Matrix Adhesions to the Third Dimension | Science | 2001 | 2,735 |
| 9 | SHED: Stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 2,404 |
| 10 | Self-Renewing Osteoprogenitors in Bone Marrow Sinusoids Can Organize a Hematopoietic Microenvironment | Cell | 2007 | 2,001 |
| 11 | Bone Marrow Stromal Stem Cells: Nature, Biology, and Potential Applications | Stem Cells | 2001 | 1,768 |
| 12 | Stem Cell Properties of Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells | Journal of Dental Research | 2002 | 1,729 |
| 13 | The NIH Human Microbiome Project | Genome Research | 2009 | 1,700 |
| 14 | The effects of surgical exposures of dental pulps in germ-free and conventional laboratory rats | Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology | 1965 | 1,671 |
| 15 | Metastatic potential correlates with enzymatic degradation of basement membrane collagen | Nature | 1980 | 1,670 |
| 16 | The small GTP-binding proteins Rac1 and Cdc42regulate the activity of the JNK/SAPK signaling pathway | Cell | 1995 | 1,668 |
| 17 | Fibronectin at a glance | Journal of Cell Science | 2002 | 1,662 |
| 18 | A novel behavioral model of neuropathic pain disorders produced in rats by partial sciatic nerve injury | Pain | 1990 | 1,630 |
| 19 | Mammalian Sweet Taste Receptors | Cell | 2001 | 1,615 |
| 20 | Modeling Tissue Morphogenesis and Cancer in 3D | Cell | 2007 | 1,557 |
| 21 | Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Revisiting History, Concepts, and Assays | Cell Stem Cell | 2008 | 1,392 |
| 22 | The receptors and cells for mammalian taste | Nature | 2006 | 1,361 |
| 23 | An amino-acid taste receptor | Nature | 2002 | 1,335 |
| 24 | Matrigel: Basement membrane matrix with biological activity | Seminars in Cancer Biology | 2005 | 1,318 |
| 25 | Perivascular Niche of Postnatal Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Human Bone Marrow and Dental Pulp | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 2003 | 1,266 |
| 26 | Generation of pathogenic TH17 cells in the absence of TGF-β signalling | Nature | 2010 | 1,253 |
| 27 | MT1-MMP-Deficient Mice Develop Dwarfism, Osteopenia, Arthritis, and Connective Tissue Disease due to Inadequate Collagen Turnover | Cell | 1999 | 1,213 |
| 28 | Identification of tendon stem/progenitor cells and the role of the extracellular matrix in their niche | Nature Medicine | 2007 | 1,211 |
| 29 | A Novel Family of Mammalian Taste Receptors | Cell | 2000 | 1,202 |
| 30 | Periodontal Disease: The sixth complication of diabetes mellitus | Diabetes Care | 1993 | 1,156 |
| 31 | Coding of Sweet, Bitter, and Umami Tastes | Cell | 2003 | 1,154 |
| 32 | G-protein-coupled receptors and cancer | Nature Reviews Cancer | 2007 | 1,153 |
| 33 | The Receptors for Mammalian Sweet and Umami Taste | Cell | 2003 | 1,143 |
| 34 | Integrin function: molecular hierarchies of cytoskeletal and signaling molecules. | Journal of Cell Biology | 1995 | 1,140 |
| 35 | Inhibition of Cell Migration, Spreading, and Focal Adhesions by Tumor Suppressor PTEN | Science | 1998 | 1,113 |
| 36 | Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of augmented pain processing in fibromyalgia | Arthritis and Rheumatism | 2002 | 1,098 |
| 37 | Effects of Desipramine, Amitriptyline, and Fluoxetine on Pain in Diabetic Neuropathy | New England Journal of Medicine | 1992 | 1,095 |
| 38 | Rapid microassays for the measurement of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide production by macrophages in culture using an automatic enzyme immunoassay reader | Journal of Immunological Methods | 1981 | 1,063 |
| 39 | Osteonectin, a bone-specific protein linking mineral to collagen | Cell | 1981 | 1,055 |
| 40 | The meaning, the sense and the significance: translating the science of mesenchymal stem cells into medicine | Nature Medicine | 2013 | 1,032 |
| 41 | The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Science | 2006 | 1,018 |
| 42 | Proteolytic remodeling of extracellular matrix | Current Opinion in Cell Biology | 1995 | 982 |
| 43 | Oral multispecies biofilm development and the key role of cell–cell distance | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2010 | 966 |
| 44 | Surface protein characterization of human adipose tissue-derived stromal cells | Journal of Cellular Physiology | 2001 | 965 |
| 45 | G-protein-coupled receptors and signaling networks: emerging paradigms | Trends in Pharmacological Sciences | 2001 | 933 |
| 46 | Activity-dependent neuronal plasticity following tissue injury and inflammation | Trends in Neurosciences | 1992 | 912 |
| 47 | The Molecular Receptive Ranges of Human TAS2R Bitter Taste Receptors | Chemical Senses | 2010 | 907 |
| 48 | VEGF controls endothelial-cell permeability by promoting the β-arrestin-dependent endocytosis of VE-cadherin | Nature Cell Biology | 2006 | 884 |
| 49 | Targeted disruption of the cyclin-dependent kinase 5 gene results in abnormal corticogenesis, neuronal pathology and perinatal death. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1996 | 883 |
| 50 | The Majority of MicroRNAs Detectable in Serum and Saliva Is Concentrated in Exosomes | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 880 |
