A novel hybrid bat algorithm for solving continuous optimization problems by Liu, Qi, Wu, Lei, Xiao, Wensheng, Wang, Fengde, Zhang, Linchuan

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Capsinoids activate brown adipose tissue (BAT) with increased energy expenditure associated with subthreshold 18-fluorine fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in BAT-positive humans confirmed by positron emission tomography scan by Sun, Lijuan, Camps, Stefan G., Goh, Hui Jen, Govindharajulu, Priya, Schaefferkoetter, Joshua D., Townsend, David W., Verma, Sanjay K., Velan, S. Sendhil, Sun, Lei, Sze, Siu Kwan, Lim, Su Chi, Boehm, Bernhard Otto, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing

“…Background: Capsinoids are reported to increase energy expenditure (EE) via brown adipose tissue (BAT) stimulation. However, imaging of BAT activation by capsinoids remains limited. …”
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Activated brown adipose tissue releases exosomes containing mitochondrial methylene tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase (NADP dependent) 1-like protein (MTHFD1L) by Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Rengaraj, Anantharaj, Narasimhan, Kothandaraman, Verma, Sanjay K., Yaligar, Jadegoud, Thu, Giang Le Thi, Sun, Lijuan, Goh, Hui Jen, Govindharajulu, Priya, Sadananthan, Suresh Anand, Michael, Navin, Meng, Wei, Gallart-Palau, Xavier, Sun, Lei, Karnani, Neerja, Sze, Siu Kwan, Velan, S. Sendhil

“…Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a promising weapon to combat obesity and metabolic disease. …”
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Brown adipose tissue influences adiponectin and thyroid hormone changes during Graves' disease therapy by Ho, Wei-En, Sun, Lijuan, Goh, Hui Jen, Tint, Mya Thway, Sun, Lei, Leow, Melvin Khee Shing

“…Thyroid hormones (TH), adiponectin and brown adipose tissue (BAT) are regulators of energy homoeostasis. Influence of BAT activity on the relationship between TH and adiponectin remains unexplored. …”
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Brown adipose tissues mediate the metabolism of branched chain amino acids during the transitioning from hyperthyroidism to euthyroidism (TRIBUTE) by Sun, Lijuan, Goh, Hui Jen, Verma, Sanjay, Govindharajulu, Priya, Sadananthan, Suresh Anand, Michael, Navin, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar, Goh, Julian Park-Nam, Velan, S. Sendhil, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing

“…Plasma BCAA level was significantly reduced in BAT-positive but not in BAT-negative patients during the transition from hyperthyroidism to euthyroidism. …”
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A feedforward loop within the thyroid-brown fat axis facilitates thermoregulation by Sun, Lijuan, Goh, Hui Jen, Govindharajulu, Priya, Sun, Lei, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing

“…Thyroid hormones (TH) control brown adipose tissue (BAT) activation and differentiation, but their subsequent homeostatic response following BAT activation remains obscure. …”
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De Novo Reconstruction of Adipose Tissue Transcriptomes Reveals Long Non-coding RNA Regulators of Brown Adipocyte Development by Alvarez-Dominguez, Juan R., Bai, Zhiqiang, Xu, Dan, Yuan, Bingbing, Lo, Kinyui Alice, Yoon, Myeong Jin, Lim, Yen Ching, Knoll, Marko, Slavov, Nikolai, Chen, Shuai, Chen, Peng, Lodish, Harvey F., Sun, Lei

“…Brown adipose tissue (BAT) protects against obesity by promoting energy expenditure via uncoupled respiration. …”
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Regulatory networks of non-coding RNAs in brown/beige adipogenesis by Xu, Shaohai, Chen, Peng, Sun, Lei

“…BAT (brown adipose tissue) is specialized to burn fatty acids for heat generation and energy expenditure to defend against cold and obesity. …”
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The Basophil Surface Marker CD203c Identifies Aspergillus Sensitization in 2 Cystic Fibrosis by Mirković, Bojana, Lavelle, Gillian M., Azim, Ahmed Abdul, Helma, Kristine, Gargoum, Fatma S., Molloy, Kevin, Gernez, Yael, Dunne, Katie, Renwick, Julie, Murphy, Philip, Moss, Richard B., Greene, Catherine M., Gunaratnam, Cedric, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, McElvaney, Noel G.

“…BAT was used to identify A fumigatus sensitization. …”
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Role of the circadian clock gene Per2 in adaptation to cold temperature by Chappuis, Sylvie, Ripperger, Jürgen Alexander, Schnell, Anna, Rando, Gianpaolo, Jud, Corinne, Wahli, Walter, Albrecht, Urs

“…For instance, in brown adipose tissue (BAT) the facultative uncoupling of the proton gradient from ATP synthesis in mitochondria is used to generate systemic heat. …”
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De novo reconstruction of human adipose transcriptome reveals conserved lncRNAs as regulators of brown adipogenesis by Ding, Chunming, Lim, Yen Ching, Chia, Sook Yoong, Walet, Arcinas Camille Esther, Xu, Shaohai, Lo, Alice Kinyui, Zhao, Yanling, Zhu, Dewen, Shan, Zhihui, Chen, Qingfeng, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Xu, Dan, Sun, Lei

“…Here we present a catalog of 3149 adipose active lncRNAs, of which 909 are specifically detected in brown adipose tissue (BAT) by performing deep RNA-seq on adult subcutaneous, omental white adipose tissue and fetal BATs. …”
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Naringin ameliorates obesity via stimulating adipose thermogenesis and browning, and modulating gut microbiota in diet-induced obese mice by Li, Xiaoping, Yao, Zhao, Qi, Xinyue, Cui, Jinling, Zhou, Yuliang, Tan, Yihong, Huang, Xiaojun, Ye, Hui

“…Notably, naringin exhibited a remarkable capacity to augment whole-body energy expenditure of the tested mice by enhancing the thermogenic activity of brown adipose tissue (BAT) and stimulating browning of inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT). …”
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Dynamic DNA methylation landscape defines brown and white cell specificity during adipogenesis by Lim, Yen Ching, Chia, Sook Yoong, Jin, Shengnan, Han, Weiping, Ding, Chunming, Sun, Lei

“…Blocking DNA methylation with 5-Aza-cytidine increased the expression of these genes, with the most prominent effect on Hoxc10, a repressor of BAT marker expression. Conclusions: Our data suggest that DNA methylation may play an important role in lineage-specific development in adipocytes.…”
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The polybasic insert, the RBD of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and the feline coronavirus - evolved or yet to evolve by Budhraja, Anshul, Pandey, Sakshi, Kannan, Srinivasaraghavan, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Venkatraman, Prasanna

“…Based on comparative analysis of the whole genome and the sequence features of the insert and the RBD domain, the bat and the pangolin have been proposed as very likely intermediary hosts. …”
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Urban traffic light scheduling for pedestrian–vehicle mixed-flow networks using discrete sine–cosine algorithm and its variants by Gupta, Shubham, Zhang, Yi, Su, Rong

“…The comparison of the proposed SCA variants is done with GUROBI solver and other metaheuristics namely, harmony search, firefly algorithm, bat algorithm, artificial bee colony, genetic algorithm, salp swarm algorithm, and harris hawks optimization. …”
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Adipose-specific PPARα knockout mice have increased lipogenesis by PASK-SREBP1 signaling and a polarity shift to inflammatory macrophages in white adipose tissue by Hinds, Terry D., Kipp, Zachary A., Xu, Mei, Yiannikouris, Frederique B., Morris, Andrew J., Stec, Donald F., Wahli, Walter, Stec, David E.

“…Only the male PparaFatKO animals had significantly more adiposity in the inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT) with HFD, compared to control littermates. …”
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V2X content distribution based on batched network coding with distributed scheduling by Gao, Yumeng, Xu, Xiaoli, Guan, Yong Liang, Chong, Peter Han Joo

“…To this end, we propose a joint infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication scheme based on batched sparse (BATS) coding to minimize the traffic overhead and reduce the total transmission delay. …”
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Synchrony in parent‐offspring social interactions across development: a cross‐species review of rodents and humans by Ham, Gao Xiang, Lim, Kai En, Augustine, George James, Leong, Victoria

“…Further, some animal species (including rodents and bats) are now known to share neural synchrony during certain forms of social behaviour. …”
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Transcriptome mining extends the host range of the Flaviviridae to non-bilaterians by Mifsud, Jonathon C. O., Costa, Vincenzo A., Petrone, Mary E., Marzinelli, Ezequiel Miguel, Holmes, Edward C., Harvey, Erin

“…Through co-phylogenetic analysis we found cross-species transmission to be the predominate macroevolutionary event across the non-vectored flavivirid genera (median, 68 per cent), including a cross-species transmission event between bats and rodents, although long-term virus-host co-divergence was still a regular occurrence (median, 23 per cent). …”
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