How much energy is stored in SARS‐CoV‐2 and its structural elements?

B Şimşek, M Özilgen, FŞ Utku - Energy Storage, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is the virus causing the
COVID‐19 disease. Data regarding the morphological properties of this virus are collected …

[HTML][HTML] COVID‐19 disease causes an energy supply deficit in a patient

M Özilgen, B Yilmaz - International journal of energy research, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CORONA-19 pandemic is caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus. It began towards the end of 2019 in
China, and soon became a worldwide epidemic, more than more than 649 000 people died …

Thermodynamic Analysis to Evaluate the Effect of Diet on Brain Glucose Metabolism: The Case of Fish Oil

C Yildiz, I Medina - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
Inefficient glucose metabolism and decreased ATP production in the brain are linked to
ageing, cognitive decline, and neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). This study employed …

Thermodynamic assessment of the effects of intermittent fasting and fatty liver disease diets on longevity

ME Öngel, C Yildiz, Ö Başer, B Yilmaz, M Özilgen - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Organisms uptake energy from their diet and maintain a highly organized structure by
importing energy and exporting entropy. A fraction of the generated entropy is accumulated …

Species‐specific biological energy storage and reuse

C Yildiz, M Özilgen - Energy Storage, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Conversion of the stored chemical energy of the brown adipose tissue (BAT) into heat by
rodents, difficulties in energy storage by cheetahs, conversion of the nutrient's energy into …

Energy storage and reuse in biological systems: Case studies

G Ulu, AS Semerciöz, M Özilgen - Energy Storage, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The consequences of energy storage in the body as fat and then reusing it in the metabolism
are assessed for seven cases by referring to entropy generation as the criterion for …

Diet-dependent entropic assessment of athletes' lifespan

C Yildiz, ME Öngel, B Yilmaz… - Journal of Nutritional …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Life expectancies of the athletes depend on the sports they are doing. The entropic age
concept, which was found successful in the previous nutrition studies, will be employed to …

Why brain functions may deteriorate with aging: a thermodynamic evaluation

C Yildiz, M Özilgen - International Journal of Exergy, 2022 - inderscienceonline.com
Oxidative Gibbs free energy utilisation capacity and the entropy generation rate of the brain
decreases with ageing. At the present level of our knowledge, we may say that the ageing …

Women, men, and thermal response: an entropic account of gender differences in breathing during exercise

J Çatak, E Develi, S Bayram - International Journal of Innovative …, 2022 - dergipark.org.tr
This study aimed to determine differences in the thermal response of the respiratory muscle
between healthy men and women during exercise. We analyzed the lungs of eight men and …

Biothermodynamics may be a highly useful tool to help medical practitioners to detect and cure morbidities

M Özilgen - … Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2024 - inderscienceonline.com
Biothermodynamics may help clinicians to diagnose and cure many medical cases, slow
down ageing, correct malnutrition and repair the distorted tissues. Thermodynamically …