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| 4 | How Matrix Metalloproteinases Regulate Cell Behavior | Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology | 2001 | 3,464 |
| 5 | Matrix Crosslinking Forces Tumor Progression by Enhancing Integrin Signaling | Cell | 2009 | 3,319 |
| 6 | New Giemsa method for the differential staining of sister chromatids | Nature | 1974 | 3,119 |
| 7 | The Molecular Biology of Axon Guidance | Science | 1996 | 3,094 |
| 8 | Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Pain | Cell | 2009 | 3,090 |
| 9 | Remodelling the extracellular matrix in development and disease | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2014 | 3,082 |
| 10 | Matrix metalloproteinase-9 triggers the angiogenic switch during carcinogenesis | Nature Cell Biology | 2000 | 2,487 |
| 11 | MicroRNA-21 contributes to myocardial disease by stimulating MAP kinase signalling in fibroblasts | Nature | 2008 | 2,111 |
| 12 | Changes in the visual system of monocularly sutured or enucleated cats demonstrable with cytochrome oxidase histochemistry | Brain Research | 1979 | 2,045 |
| 13 | A framework for advancing our understanding of cancer-associated fibroblasts | Nature Reviews Cancer | 2020 | 2,012 |
| 14 | Genes that act downstream of DAF-16 to influence the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans | Nature | 2003 | 1,998 |
| 15 | Development, maintenance and disruption of the blood-brain barrier | Nature Medicine | 2013 | 1,750 |
| 16 | MMP-9/Gelatinase B Is a Key Regulator of Growth Plate Angiogenesis and Apoptosis of Hypertrophic Chondrocytes | Cell | 1998 | 1,639 |
| 17 | Recruitment of Stem and Progenitor Cells from the Bone Marrow Niche Requires MMP-9 Mediated Release of Kit-Ligand | Cell | 2002 | 1,630 |
| 18 | Netting neutrophils in autoimmune small-vessel vasculitis | Nature Medicine | 2009 | 1,390 |
| 19 | The netrins define a family of axon outgrowth-promoting proteins homologous to C. elegans UNC-6 | Cell | 1994 | 1,273 |
| 20 | Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress | Scientific Reports | 2013 | 1,266 |
| 21 | Netrins are diffusible chemotropic factors for commissural axons in the embryonic spinal cord | Cell | 1994 | 1,265 |
| 22 | ECM and Cell Surface Proteolysis: Regulating Cellular Ecology | Cell | 1997 | 1,213 |
| 23 | The Cancer Stem Cell Niche: How Essential Is the Niche in Regulating Stemness of Tumor Cells? | Cell Stem Cell | 2015 | 1,195 |
| 24 | Netrin-1 Is Required for Commissural Axon Guidance in the Developing Vertebrate Nervous System | Cell | 1996 | 1,163 |
| 25 | Rac1b and reactive oxygen species mediate MMP-3-induced EMT and genomic instability | Nature | 2005 | 1,159 |
| 26 | Slit Proteins Bind Robo Receptors and Have an Evolutionarily Conserved Role in Repulsive Axon Guidance | Cell | 1999 | 1,067 |
| 27 | Neuropilin Is a Receptor for the Axonal Chemorepellent Semaphorin III | Cell | 1997 | 1,039 |
| 28 | Concepts of extracellular matrix remodelling in tumour progression and metastasis | Nature Communications | 2020 | 1,004 |
| 29 | The Stromal Proteinase MMP3/Stromelysin-1 Promotes Mammary Carcinogenesis | Cell | 1999 | 994 |
| 30 | Tumors as Organs: Complex Tissues that Interface with the Entire Organism | Developmental Cell | 2010 | 988 |
| 31 | An Fgf8 mutant allelic series generated by Cre- and Flp-mediated recombination | Nature Genetics | 1998 | 965 |
| 32 | Imaging of angiogenesis: from microscope to clinic | Nature Medicine | 2003 | 943 |
| 33 | Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) Encodes a Netrin Receptor | Cell | 1996 | 934 |
| 34 | β4 integrin-dependent formation of polarized three-dimensional architecture confers resistance to apoptosis in normal and malignant mammary epithelium | Cancer Cell | 2002 | 880 |
| 35 | Fluoro-gold: a new fluorescent retrograde axonal tracer with numerous unique properties | Brain Research | 1986 | 860 |
| 36 | Functionally specialized junctions between endothelial cells of lymphatic vessels | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2007 | 829 |
| 37 | Roundabout Controls Axon Crossing of the CNS Midline and Defines a Novel Subfamily of Evolutionarily Conserved Guidance Receptors | Cell | 1998 | 813 |
| 38 | Neurobiology of the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome | Science | 1998 | 810 |
| 39 | Mechanics, malignancy, and metastasis: The force journey of a tumor cell | Cancer and Metastasis Reviews | 2009 | 791 |
| 40 | Single-cell analysis reveals a stem-cell program in human metastatic breast cancer cells | Nature | 2015 | 767 |
| 41 | Teratocarcinomas and mammalian embryogenesis | Science | 1980 | 748 |
| 42 | Repair and Regeneration of the Respiratory System: Complexity, Plasticity, and Mechanisms of Lung Stem Cell Function | Cell Stem Cell | 2014 | 748 |
| 43 | Phenotype of mice lacking functional Deleted in colorectal cancer (Dec) gene | Nature | 1997 | 717 |
| 44 | Stromal Effects on Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer | Science | 2002 | 709 |
| 45 | Inhibition of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Signaling in Cancer Causes Loss of Endothelial Fenestrations, Regression of Tumor Vessels, and Appearance of Basement Membrane Ghosts | American Journal of Pathology | 2004 | 702 |
| 46 | Photoreceptor degeneration in inherited retinal dystrophy delayed by basic fibroblast growth factor | Nature | 1990 | 700 |
| 47 | Multiple growth factors, cytokines, and neurotrophins rescue photoreceptors from the damaging effects of constant light. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1992 | 692 |
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