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Overview

Masoumeh Sikaroodi is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Medicine, concentrating on subfields such as Epidemiology, Hepatology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research extensively covers topics related to liver diseases, including diagnosis and treatment, transplantation, and the role of gut microbiota in health. Additional research areas include diet and metabolism studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and organ transplantation techniques and outcomes.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Patrick M. Gillevet, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Andrew Fagan, Michael Fuchs, and Sara McGeorge.

Publications by Masoumeh Sikaroodi appear in various scientific journals, with repeated contributions in the following venues:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Hepatology
  • Gut Microbes
  • Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Recent selected papers illustrate the focus areas of their research:

  • A Randomized Clinical Trial of Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Alcohol Use Disorder, 2020, Hepatology
  • Fecal Microbiome Distinguishes Alcohol Consumption From Alcoholic Hepatitis But Does Not Discriminate Disease Severity, 2020, Hepatology
  • Serum Levels of Metabolites Produced by Intestinal Microbes and Lipid Moieties Independently Associated With Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure and Death in Patients With Cirrhosis, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Interaction of bacterial metagenome and virome in patients with cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy, 2020, Gut
  • Fecal Microbiota Transplant in Cirrhosis Reduces Gut Microbial Antibiotic Resistance Genes: Analysis of Two Trials, 2020, Hepatology Communications

Best Publications

  • Characterization of the Oral Fungal Microbiome (Mycobiome) in Healthy Individuals

    Mahmoud A Ghannoum;Richard J. Jurevic;Pranab Kumar Mukherjee;Fan Cui

  • Altered profile of human gut microbiome is associated with cirrhosis and its complications

    Jasmohan S. Bajaj;Douglas M. Heuman;Phillip B. Hylemon;Arun J. Sanyal

  • Colonic microbiome is altered in alcoholism

    Ece A. Mutlu;Patrick M. Gillevet;Huzefa Rangwala;Masoumeh Sikaroodi

  • Modulation of the Fecal Bile Acid Profile by Gut Microbiota in Cirrhosis

    Genta Kakiyama;William M. Pandak;Patrick M. Gillevet;Phillip B. Hylemon

  • Fecal microbiome and volatile organic compound metabolome in obese humans with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

    Maitreyi Raman;Iftikhar Ahmed;Patrick M. Gillevet;Chris S. Probert

  • Linkage of gut microbiome with cognition in hepatic encephalopathy

    Jasmohan Singh Bajaj;Jason M. Ridlon;Phillip B. Hylemon;Leroy R Thacker

  • Fecal microbiota transplant from a rational stool donor improves hepatic encephalopathy: A randomized clinical trial

    Jasmohan S. Bajaj;Zain Kassam;Andrew Fagan;Edith A. Gavis

  • Colonic mucosal microbiome differs from stool microbiome in cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy and is linked to cognition and inflammation

    Jasmohan Singh Bajaj;Phillip B. Hylemon;Jason M. Ridlon;Douglas M. Heuman

  • Modulation of the metabiome by rifaximin in patients with cirrhosis and minimal hepatic encephalopathy.

    Jasmohan S. Bajaj;Douglas M. Heuman;Arun J. Sanyal;Phillip B. Hylemon

  • Intestinal Dysbiosis: A Possible Mechanism of Alcohol‐Induced Endotoxemia and Alcoholic Steatohepatitis in Rats

    Ece Mutlu;Ali Keshavarzian;Phillip Engen;Christopher B. Forsyth

  • Oral mycobiome analysis of HIV-infected patients: identification of Pichia as an antagonist of opportunistic fungi.

    Pranab Kumar Mukherjee;Jyotsna Chandra;Mauricio Retuerto;Masoumeh Sikaroodi

  • Salivary microbiota reflects changes in gut microbiota in cirrhosis with hepatic encephalopathy

    Jasmohan S. Bajaj;Naga S. Betrapally;Phillip B. Hylemon;Douglas M. Heuman

  • Randomised clinical trial: Lactobacillus GG modulates gut microbiome, metabolome and endotoxemia in patients with cirrhosis.

    J. S. Bajaj;D. M. Heuman;P. B. Hylemon;A. J. Sanyal

  • Fecal Microbial Transplant Capsules Are Safe in Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Phase 1, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

    Jasmohan S. Bajaj;Jasmohan S. Bajaj;Nita H. Salzman;Chathur Acharya;Chathur Acharya;Richard K. Sterling;Richard K. Sterling

  • Gastric acid suppression promotes alcoholic liver disease by inducing overgrowth of intestinal Enterococcus.

    Cristina Llorente;Cristina Llorente;Peter Jepsen;Tatsuo Inamine;Tatsuo Inamine;Lirui Wang;Lirui Wang

  • Impaired Gut-Liver-Brain Axis in Patients with Cirrhosis

    Vishwadeep Ahluwalia;Naga S Betrapally;Phillip B Hylemon;Melanie B White

  • A single macrolichen constitutes hundreds of unrecognized species

    Robert Lücking;Manuela Dal-Forno;Masoumeh Sikaroodi;Patrick M. Gillevet

  • Ocean currents shape the microbiome of Arctic marine sediments.

    Leila J Hamdan;Richard B Coffin;Masoumeh Sikaroodi;Jens Greinert

  • A Randomized Clinical Trial of Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Alcohol Use Disorder.

    Jasmohan S Bajaj;Edith A Gavis;Andrew Fagan;James B Wade

  • Lower Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Associated with Reduced Diversity of the Colonic Microbiota in Healthy Adults

    Gregory E. Miller;Phillip A. Engen;Patrick M. Gillevet;Maliha Shaikh

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick M. Gillevet
Patrick M. Gillevet George Mason University
Jasmohan S. Bajaj
Jasmohan S. Bajaj Virginia Commonwealth University
Douglas M. Heuman
Douglas M. Heuman Virginia Commonwealth University
Phillip B. Hylemon
Phillip B. Hylemon Virginia Commonwealth University
Richard K. Sterling
Richard K. Sterling Virginia Commonwealth University
William M. Pandak
William M. Pandak Virginia Commonwealth University
Arun J. Sanyal
Arun J. Sanyal Virginia Commonwealth University
Huiping Zhou
Huiping Zhou University of Tsukuba
Ali Keshavarzian
Ali Keshavarzian Rush University Medical Center
Simon D. Taylor-Robinson
Simon D. Taylor-Robinson Imperial College London

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