PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed Manuscripts

    1. Laing, B. T., Anderson, M. S., Jayan, A., Park, A. S., Erbaugh, L. J., Solis, O., Wilson, D.J., Michaelides, M.M., & Aponte, Y. (2025). Repetitive grooming behavior following aversive stimulus coincides with a decrease in anterior hypothalamic area activity. eneuro, 12(1).
    2. Laing, B. T., Anderson, M. S., Bonaventura, J., Jayan, A., Sarsfield, S., Gajendiran, A., Michaelides, M., & Aponte, Y. (2023). Anterior hypothalamic parvalbumin neurons are glutamatergic and promote escape behavior. Current Biology.

    1. Laing, B. T., Jayan, A., Wilson, D., Erbaugh, L., Aponte, Y. The effect of AGRP activation on body weight and feeding during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice (2022). Frontiers in Neural Circuits (16).

    1. Landry, T., Li, P., Edward D., Zhiying J., Hongli L., Laing B.T., Bunner, W., Tong Q., Huang H. (2021). Centrally circulating klotho inversely correlates with human obesity and modulates arcuate cell populations in mice. Molecular metabolism (44).

    1. Laing, B. T., Siemian J., Sarsfield, S., Aponte, Y. Fluorescence microendoscopy for in vivo deep-brain imaging of neuronal circuits (2020). Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

    1. Landry, T., Laing, B.T., et al. Central klotho suppresses AgRP/NPY neuron activity and regulates metabolism in mice (2020). Diabetes 69(6).

    1. Bunner, W., Laing B.T. et al. ARC Agrp/NPY neuron activity is required for acute exercise-induced food intake in un-trained mice (2020). Frontiers in Physiology, 11.

    1. Schiffino, F. L., Siemian, J. N., Petrella, M., Laing, B.T., et al., & Aponte, Y. (2019). Activation of a lateral hypothalamic-ventral tegmental circuit gates motivation. PloS one, 14(7), e0219522.

    1. Verkerke R.P., Ferrara P. J., Lin C.T., Johnson J., Ryan T.E., Maschek J.A., Eshima H., Paran C.W, Laing B.T., Siripoksup P., Tippetts T.S., Wentzler E.J., Huang H., Spangenburg E.E., Brault J. J., Villanueva C.J., Summers S.A., Holland W.L., Cox J.E., Vance  D.E., Neufer P.D., Funai K. Phospholipid methylation regulates muscle metabolic rate through Ca2+ transport efficiency (2019). Nature Metabolism.  

    1. Li P,. Rao Z, Laing, B.T., et al. Vertical sleeve gastrectomy improves liver and hypothalamic functions in obese mice (2019). Journal of Endocrinology 1, (2019).

    1. Rao, Z., Landry T., Li P., Bunner W., Laing, B.T., Yuan Y., Huang H. Administration of alpha klotho reduces liver and adipose lipid accumulation in obese mice (2019).  Heliyon 5(4), e01494-e01494.

    1. Laing, B. T., Li P., Schmidt C.A., et al. AgRP/NPY neuron excitability is modulated by metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 during fasting (2018). Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 12.

    1. Do, K., Laing, B.T, Landry, T., Bunner, W., Mersaud, N., Matsubara, T., Li, P., Yuan Yuan, Lu, Q., Huang, H. The effects of exercise on hypothalamic neurodegeneration of Alzheimer’s disease mouse model (2018). Plos One 13(1): e19025.

    1. Laing, B.T., Huang, H. Exercise improves hypothalamic function induced by high fat diet (2016). Journal of Immunoendocrinology (Vol 3). 

    1. Laing, B.T., Do, K., Matsubara, T., Wert, D., Avery, M., Langdon, E., & Huang, H. (2016). Voluntary exercise improves hypothalamic and metabolic function in obese mice. Journal of Endocrinology, JOE-15.

    1. Foltz, S. L., Ross, A. E., Laing, B. T., Rock, R. P., Battle, K. E., & Moore, I. T. (2015). Get off my lawn: increased aggression in urban song sparrows is related to resource availability. Behavioral Ecology, arv111.

    1. Foltz, S. L., Davis, J. E., Battle, K. E., Greene, V. W., Laing, B. T., Rock, R. P., & Moore, I. T. (2015). Across time and space: Effects of urbanization on corticosterone and body condition vary over multiple years in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, 323(2), 109-120.

    1. Foltz, S. L., Davis, J. E., Greene, V. W., Laing, B.T., Tallant, J. A., & Moore, I. T. (2012, April). Aggression, neophobia and corticosterone in relation to urbanization in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 52, pp. E246-E246). Journals Dept, 2001 Evans Rd, Cary, NC 27513 USA: Oxford Univ Press Inc.