Erika Claud

BACKGROUND: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality, is highly prevalent in people living with HIV (PLWH).1 Microbial translocation (MT) associated with hepatic inflammation and fibrosis may play a critical role in NASH pathogenesis…

BACKGROUND: Diet is known to alter the risk of depression. Increasing data also demonstrate a causal role of the gut microbiome in mental illness, via the gut-brain axis. However, it remains unclear how diet and the microbiome mechanistically influence depression risk in humans…

BACKGROUND: Through shotgun metagenomic sequencing, we identified the depletion of probiotic species_ Lactobacillus acidophilus_ in stools of mice with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (NAFLD-HCC)…