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10475
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Overview

Joe L. Key is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Medicine, Engineering, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work involves several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biomaterials, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Genetics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • Mesenchymal stem cell research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation

Joe L. Key has published in several journals and venues, with frequent publications in the following:

  • Biomedical Engineering Letters
  • International Journal of Nanomedicine
  • Research Square
  • Journal of Nanobiotechnology
  • Pharmaceutics

Selected recent publications include:

  • Improvement of stem cell-derived exosome release efficiency by surface-modified nanoparticles, 2020, Journal of Nanobiotechnology
  • Clinical Trials for Oral, Inhaled and Intravenous Drug Delivery System for Lung Cancer and Emerging Nanomedicine-Based Approaches, 2023, International Journal of Nanomedicine
  • Therapeutic Efficacy of Curcumin Enhanced by Microscale Discoidal Polymeric Particles in a Murine Asthma Model, 2020, Pharmaceutics
  • Cavitation-assisted sonothrombolysis by asymmetrical nanostars for accelerated thrombolysis, 2022, Journal of Controlled Release
  • Indocyanine Green-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles Conjugated with Hyaluronic Acid Improve Target Specificity in Cervical Cancer Tumors, 2021, Yonsei Medical Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Joe L. Key include:

  • Sanghyo Park
  • Young Joon Seo
  • Wan Su Yun
  • Jin Sil Choi
  • Susmita Aryal

Best Publications

  • Heat shock proteins of higher plants.

    Joe L. Key;C. Y. Lin;Y. M. Chen

  • Acquisition of Thermotolerance in Soybean Seedlings : Synthesis and Accumulation of Heat Shock Proteins and their Cellular Localization.

    Chu-Yung Lin;J. K. Roberts;Joe L. Key

  • Ribonucleic Acid and Protein Synthesis as Essential Processes for Cell Elongation

    Joe L. Key

  • Comparative analysis of physical stress responses in soybean seedlings using cloned heat shock CDNAs

    Eva Czarnecka;L. Edelman;F. Schöffl;Joe L. Key

  • Isolation of cloned cDNAs to auxin-responsive poly(A)+RNAs of elongating soybean hypocotyl

    John C. Walker;Joe L. Key

  • Characterization and sequence analysis of a developmentally regulated putative cell wall protein gene isolated from soybean

    Jong Chan Hong;R. T. Nagao;J. L. Key

  • Enhancement by Auxin of Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis in Excised Soybean Hypocotyl Tissue.

    Joe L. Key;Jack C. Shannon

  • Sequence and characterization of two auxin-regulated genes from soybean.

    W M Ainley;J C Walker;R T Nagao;J L Key

  • Synthesis of the Low Molecular Weight Heat Shock Proteins in Plants

    Michael A. Mansfield;Joe L. Key

  • Characterization of Gmhsp26-A, a stress gene encoding a divergent heat shock protein of soybean: heavy-metal-induced inhibition of intron processing.

    E Czarnecka;R T Nagao;J L Key;W B Gurley

  • A soybean 101-kD heat shock protein complements a yeast HSP104 deletion mutant in acquiring thermotolerance.

    Yuh-Ru Julie Lee;Ronald T. Nagao;Joe L. Key

  • Developmentally regulated expression of soybean proline-rich cell wall protein genes.

    Jong Chan Hong;Ron T. Nagao;Joe L. Key

  • DEMONSTRATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A DNA-LIKE RNA IN EXCISED PLANT TISSUE.

    John Ingle;Joe L. Key;Robert E. Holm

  • REQUIREMENT FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF DNA-LIKE RNA FOR GROWTH OF EXCISED PLANT TISSUE

    Joe L. Key;John Ingle

  • Specific heat shock proteins are transported into chloroplasts

    Elizabeth Vierling;Michael L. Mishkind;Gregory W. Schmidt;Joe L. Key

  • Auxin‐regulated gene expression in higher plants

    Tom J. Guilfoyle;Joe L. Key

  • Sequence organization of the soybean genome

    William B Gurley;Angus G Hepburn;Joe L Key

  • Genes for low-molecular-weight heat shock proteins of soybeans: sequence analysis of a multigene family.

    R T Nagao;E Czarnecka;W B Gurley;F Schöffl

  • Effect of Purine and Pyrimidine Analogues on Growth and RNA Metabolism in the Soybean Hypocotyl-the Selective Action of 5-Fluorouracil

    Joe L. Key

  • Ribosomal RNA synthesis in plants.

    C.J. Leaver;Joe L. Key

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Vierling
Elizabeth Vierling University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tom J. Guilfoyle
Tom J. Guilfoyle University of Missouri
John C. Walker
John C. Walker University of Missouri
Christopher J. Leaver
Christopher J. Leaver University of Oxford
Jong Chan Hong
Jong Chan Hong Gyeongsang National University
Carolyn D. Silflow
Carolyn D. Silflow University of Minnesota
Jeong Dong Bahk
Jeong Dong Bahk Gyeongsang National University
Wilma L. Lingle
Wilma L. Lingle Mayo Clinic
Moo Je Cho
Moo Je Cho Gyeongsang National University
Yong Hwa Cheong
Yong Hwa Cheong Sunchon National University

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