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D-Index
52
Citations
9174
World Ranking
13563
National Ranking
3535

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1972 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John F. W. Keana is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their academic career includes recognition by prominent foundations in 1972, notably as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Keana's professional profile is characterized by their association with these distinguished awards, which indicate engagement in significant research activities during that period.

Best Publications

  • 1,3-Di(2-[5-3H]tolyl)guanidine: a selective ligand that labels sigma-type receptors for psychotomimetic opiates and antipsychotic drugs.

    Eckard Weber;Mark Sonders;Merrit Quarum;Stafford McLean

  • NEWER ASPECTS OF THE SYNTHESIS AND CHEMISTRY OF NITROXIDE SPIN LABELS

    John F. W. Keana

  • New reagents for photoaffinity labeling: synthesis and photolysis of functionalized perfluorophenyl azides

    John F. W. Keana;Sui Xiong Cai

  • New versatile ketone spin label

    John F. W. Keana;Sue B. Keana;Dennis. Beetham

  • Phencyclidine and psychotomimetic sigma opiates: recent insights into their biochemical and physiological sites of action.

    Mark S. Sonders;John F.W. Keana;Eckard Weber

  • Molecularly imprinted materials, method for their preparation and devices employing such materials

    Mingdi Yan;John F. W. Keana;Martin N. Wybourne;Christophe J. P. Sevrain

  • Nitroxides as potential contrast enhancing agents for MRI application: influence of structure on the rate of reduction by rat hepatocytes, whole liver homogenate, subcellular fractions, and ascorbate.

    John F. W. Keana;Sovitj Pou;Gerald M. Rosen

  • In vivo models of cerebral ischemia: effects of parenterally administered NMDA receptor glycine site antagonists.

    David S. Warner;Huijie Martin;Paula Ludwig;Alice McAllister

  • Methods for functionalizing and coating substrates and devices made according to the methods

    Mingdi Yan;John F. W. Keana;Goran Karapetrov;Christopher J-P Sevrain

  • Introduction of reactive cysteine residues in the epsilon subunit of Escherichia coli F1 ATPase, modification of these sites with tetrafluorophenyl azide-maleimides, and examination of changes in the binding of the epsilon subunit when different nucleotides are in catalytic sites.

    Robert Aggeler;Kathy Chicas-Cruz;Sui Xiong Cai;John F. W. Keana

  • Metal-Catalyzed Hydration of Phenanthroline Nitrile

    Ronald. Breslow;Robert. Fairweather;John. Keana

  • NMDA receptor antagonists, MK-801 and ACEA-1011, prevent the development of tonic pain following subcutaneous formalin.

    Anthony L. Vaccarino;Anthony L. Vaccarino;Przemyslaw Marek;Benjamin Kest;Eckard Weber

  • Charge selectivity at the lipid-protein interface of membranous Na,K-ATPase.

    J R Brotherus;P C Jost;O H Griffith;J F Keana

  • In situ reduction of nitroxide spin labels with phenylhydrazine in deuteriochloroform solution. Convenient method for obtaining structural information on nitroxides using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

    Terry D. Lee;John F. W. Keana

  • N,n'-disubstituted guanidines and their use as excitatory amino acid antagonists

    Eckard Weber;John F. W. Keana

  • Chemical functionalization of surfaces

    John F. W. Keana;Martin N. Wybourne;Sui Xiong Cai;Mingdi Yan

  • Dipeptide apoptosis inhibitors and the use thereof

    John F. W. Keana;Sui Xiong Cai;John Guastella;Wu Yang

  • Single-molecule atomic force microscopy force spectroscopy study of Aβ-40 interactions

    Bo Hyun Kim;Nicholas Y. Palermo;Sándor Lovas;Tatiana Zaikova

  • Synthesis and characterization of a series of diarylguanidines that are noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists with neuroprotective properties

    J F Keana;R N McBurney;M W Scherz;J B Fischer

  • Photochemical functionalization of polymer surfaces and the production of biomolecule-carrying micrometer-scale structures by deep-UV lithography using 4-substituted perfluorophenyl azides

    Mingdi Yan;Sui Xiong Cai;M. N. Wybourne;John F. W. Keana

Frequent Co-Authors

Mingdi Yan
Mingdi Yan University of Massachusetts Lowell
George Ferguson
George Ferguson University of Guelph
Gerald M. Rosen
Gerald M. Rosen University of Maryland, Baltimore
Quan Li
Quan Li Chinese University of Hong Kong
Michael P. Kavanaugh
Michael P. Kavanaugh University of Montana
Yuri L. Lyubchenko
Yuri L. Lyubchenko University of Nebraska Medical Center
James E. Hutchison
James E. Hutchison University of Oregon
Roderick A. Capaldi
Roderick A. Capaldi University of Oregon
Pamela J. Bjorkman
Pamela J. Bjorkman California Institute of Technology
Craig E. Jahr
Craig E. Jahr Oregon Health & Science University

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