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Gianrico Farrugia

Gianrico Farrugia

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Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
31611
World Ranking
9356
National Ranking
4824

Overview

Gianrico Farrugia is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on gastroenterology. Their research spans several subfields including gastroenterology, physiology, molecular biology, surgery, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments
  • Erythrocyte function and pathophysiology
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies

Frequently publishing in leading journals, their common venues include:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Neurogastroenterology & Motility
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  • American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Some of the recently published scientific papers involving Gianrico Farrugia include:

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Reveals Subset-Specific Mechanisms Underlying Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 2020, Cell
  • Functional Dyspepsia and Gastroparesis in Tertiary Care are Interchangeable Syndromes With Common Clinical and Pathologic Features, 2021, Gastroenterology
  • Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccine on Asymptomatic Infection Among Patients Undergoing Preprocedural COVID-19 Molecular Screening, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Role of gut microbiota in regulating gastrointestinal dysfunction and motor symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease, 2021, Gut Microbes
  • Gastric dysfunction in patients with chronic nausea and vomiting syndromes defined by a noninvasive gastric mapping device, 2022, Science Translational Medicine

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Madhusudan Grover
  • Arthur Beyder
  • Pankaj J. Pasricha
  • Henry P. Parkman
  • Richard W. McCallum

Best Publications

  • Gut microbes promote colonic serotonin production through an effect of short-chain fatty acids on enterochromaffin cells

    Christopher S. Reigstad;Charles E. Salmonson;John F. Rainey;Joseph H. Szurszewski

  • Autoantibodies to ganglionic acetylcholine receptors in autoimmune autonomic neuropathies

    Steven Vernino;Phillip A. Low;Robert D. Fealey;John D. Stewart

  • Decreased interstitial cell of Cajal volume in patients with slow-transit constipation

    Chong–Liang He;Larry Burgart;Linan Wang;John Pemberton

  • Ano1 is a selective marker of interstitial cells of Cajal in the human and mouse gastrointestinal tract

    Pedro J. Gomez-Pinilla;Simon J. Gibbons;Michael R. Bardsley;Andrea Lorincz

  • Complex Interactions Among Diet, Gastrointestinal Transit, and Gut Microbiota in Humanized Mice

    Purna C. Kashyap;Purna C. Kashyap;Angela Marcobal;Luke K. Ursell;Muriel Larauche

  • Interstitial cells of Cajal in health and disease.

    Gianrico Farrugia

  • Treatment of gastroparesis: a multidisciplinary clinical review

    T. L. Abell;R. K. Bernstein;T. Cutts;G. Farrugia

  • Cellular changes in diabetic and idiopathic gastroparesis.

    Madhusudan Grover;Gianrico Farrugia;Matthew S. Lurken;Cheryl E. Bernard

  • Syntrophin mutation associated with long QT syndrome through activation of the nNOS–SCN5A macromolecular complex

    Kazuo Ueda;Carmen Valdivia;Argelia Medeiros-Domingo;David J. Tester

  • Loss of interstitial cells of cajal and inhibitory innervation in insulin-dependent diabetes.

    C-Liang He;Joseph H. Szurszewski;Gianrico Farrugia;Edy E. Soffer

  • Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Irritable Bowel Syndrome After Infectious Enteritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Fabiane Klem;Fabiane Klem;Akhilesh Wadhwa;Larry J. Prokop;Wendy J. Sundt

  • Pan-colonic decrease in interstitial cells of Cajal in patients with slow transit constipation

    G. L. Lyford;C. L. He;E. Soffer;T. L. Hull

  • Nitric Oxide in Gastrointestinal Health and Disease

    Vijay Shah;Vijay Shah;Greg Lyford;Greg Gores;Gianrico Farrugia

  • Abnormal Initiation and Conduction of Slow-Wave Activity in Gastroparesis, Defined by High-Resolution Electrical Mapping

    Gregory O'Grady;Timothy R. Angeli;Peng Du;Chris Lahr

  • Gut Microbiota-Produced Tryptamine Activates an Epithelial G-Protein-Coupled Receptor to Increase Colonic Secretion

    Yogesh Bhattarai;Brianna B. Williams;Eric J. Battaglioli;Weston R. Whitaker

  • Preemptive genotyping for personalized medicine: design of the right drug, right dose, right time-using genomic data to individualize treatment protocol.

    Suzette J. Bielinski;Janet E. Olson;Jyotishman Pathak;Richard M. Weinshilboum

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Reveals Subset-Specific Mechanisms Underlying Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

    Ruben A.T. Mars;Yi Yang;Tonya Ward;Mo Houtti

  • Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Management of Diabetic Gastroparesis

    Michael Camilleri;Adil E. Bharucha;Gianrico Farrugia

  • Clinical features of idiopathic gastroparesis vary with sex, body mass, symptom onset, delay in gastric emptying, and gastroparesis severity

    Henry P. Parkman;Katherine Yates;William L. Hasler;Linda Nguyen

  • Treatment of gastroparesis: a multidisciplinary clinical

    T. L. Abell;R. K. Bernstein;T. Cutts;G. Farrugia

Frequent Co-Authors

Pankaj J. Pasricha
Pankaj J. Pasricha Johns Hopkins University
Henry P. Parkman
Henry P. Parkman Temple University
James Tonascia
James Tonascia Johns Hopkins University
Richard W. McCallum
Richard W. McCallum Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Tamas Ordog
Tamas Ordog Mayo Clinic
Michael G. Sarr
Michael G. Sarr Mayo Clinic
Leo K. Cheng
Leo K. Cheng University of Auckland
Nicholas J. Talley
Nicholas J. Talley University of Newcastle Australia
Justin L. Sonnenburg
Justin L. Sonnenburg Stanford University

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