Publications

Belal Alshaikh, Jumana Samara, Shirin Moossavi, Tahsin Ferdous, Amuchou Soraisham, Deonne Dersch-Mills, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Harish Amin (2022). Multi-strain probiotics for extremely preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial. Pediatric Research.

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Jumana Samara, Shirin Moossavi, Belal Alshaikh, Van A. Ortega, Veronika Kuchařová Pettersen, Tahsin Ferdous, Suzie L. Hoops, Amuchou Soraisham, Joseph Vayalumkal, Deonne Dersch-Mills, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Sagori Mukhopadhyay, Karen Puopolo, Thomas A. Tompkins, Dan Knights, Jens Walter, Harish Amin, Marie-Claire Arrieta (2022). Probiotic supplementation accelerates gut microbiome maturation and reduces intestinal inflammation in extremely preterm infants. Cell Host & Microbe.

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Shirin Moossavi, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Amir Sanati-Nezhad, Faraz Bishehsari (2022). Gut-on-chip for ecological and causal human gut microbiome research . Trends in Microbiology.

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Belal Alshaikh, Adriana Reyes Loredo, Megan Knauff, Sarfaraz Momin, Shirin Moossavi (2022). The Role of Dietary Fats in the Development and Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis. Nutrients.

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Shirin Moossavi, Michelle E. Fontes, Laura Rossi, Gerhard Fusch, Michael G. Surette, Meghan Azad (2021). Capturing the diversity of the human milk microbiota through culture-enriched molecular profiling: a feasibility study. FEMS Microbiology Letter.

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Shirin Moossavi, Kelsey Fehr, Ehsan Khafipour, Meghan Azad (2021). Repeatability and reproducibility assessment in a large-scale population-based microbiota study: case study on human milk microbiota. Microbiome.

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Shirin Moossavi, Faisal Atakora, Kelsey Fehr, Ehsan Khafipour (2020). Biological observations in microbiota analysis are robust to the choice of 16S rRNA gene sequencing processing algorithm: case study on human milk microbiota. BMC Microbiology.

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Kelsey Fehr, Shirin Moossavi, Hind Sbihi, Rozlyn C.T. Boutin, Lars Bode, Bianca Robertson, Chloe Yonemitsu, Catherine J. Field, Allan B. Becker, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Malcolm R. Sears, Ehsan Khafipour, Theo J. Moraes, Padmaja Subbarao, B. Brett Finlay, Stuart E. Turvey, Meghan Azad (2020). Breastmilk feeding practices are associated with the co-occurrence of bacteria in mothers’ milk and the infant gut: the CHILD Cohort Study. Cell Host Microbe.

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Faraz Bishehsari, Shirin Moossavi, Phillip A. Engen, Xiaohan Liu, Yue Zhang (2020). Abnormal food timing promotes alcohol associated dysbiosis and colon carcinogenesis pathways. Frontiers in Oncology.

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Shirin Moossavi, Kelsey Fehr, Hooman Derakhshani, Hind Sbihi, Bianca Robertson, Lars Bode, Jeffrey Brook, Stuart E. Turvey, Theo J. Moraes, Allan B. Becker, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Malcolm R. Sears, Ehsan Khafipour, Padmaja Subbarao, Meghan Azad (2020). Human milk fungi: environmental determinants and inter-kingdom associations with milk bacteria.. BMC Microbiology.

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Shirin Moossavi, Meghan Azad (2019). Origins of human milk microbiota: new evidence and arising questions. Gut Microbes.

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Shirin Moossavi, Phillip A. Engen, Reza Ghanbari, Stefan J. Green, Ankur Naqib, Faraz Bishehsari, Shahin Merat, Hossein Poustchi, Ali Keshavarzian, Reza Malekzadeh (2019). Assessment of the impact of different fecal storage protocols on the microbiota diversity and composition: a pilot study. BMC Microbiology.

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Shirin Moossavi, Faisal Atakora, Kozeta Miliku, Shadi Sepehri, Bianca Robertson, Qing Ling Duan, Allan B. Becker, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Stuart E. Turvey, Authors, Theo J. Moraes, Diana L. Lefebvre, Malcolm R. Sears, Padmaja Subbarao, Catherine J. Field, Lars Bode, Ehsan Khafipour, Meghan Azad (2019). Integrated Analysis of Human Milk Microbiota with Oligosaccharides and Fatty Acids in the CHILD Cohort. Frontiers in Nutrition.

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Shirin Moossavi (2019). Normal microbiota: Let us change our perspective. Archives of Iranian medicine.

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Shirin Moossavi, Shadi Sepehri, Bianca Robertson, Lars Bode, Sue Goruk, Catherine J. Field, Lisa M. Lix, Russell J de Souza, Allan B. Becker, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Stuart E. Turvey, Padmaja Subbarao, Theo J. Moraes, Diana L. Lefebvre, Malcolm R. Sears, Ehsan Khafipour, Meghan Azad (2019). Composition and Variation of the Human Milk Microbiome is Influenced by Maternal and Early Life Factors. Cell Host Microbe.

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Shirin Moossavi, Meghan Azad (2019). Quantifying and interpreting the association between early life gut microbiota composition and childhood obesity. mBio.

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Shirin Moossavi, Faraz Bishehsari (2018). Microbes: Possible link between modern lifestyle transition and the rise of metabolic syndrome. Obesity Reviews.

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Shirin Moossavi, Kozeta Miliku K, Shadi Sepehri, Ehsan Khafipour, Meghan Azad (2018). The prebiotic and probiotic properties of human milk: implications for infant immune development and pediatric asthma. Frontiers in Pediatrics.

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Mohammad Bashashati, Shirin Moossavi, Nima Rezaei, Sharareh Moraveji, Geoffery Talmon, Cesare Cremon, Patrick A.Hughes, Zx Bian, Chang Hwan Choi, Oh-Young Lee, Moïse Coëffier, Lin Chang, Lena Ohman, Max J. Schmulson, Richard W. McCallum, Magnus Simren, Keith A. Sharkey, Giovanni Barbara (2018). Colonic immune cells in irritable bowel syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis.. Neurogastroenterol Motility.

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Ahmed Al-Samadi, Shirin Moossavi, Abdelhakim Salem, Masoud Sotoudeh, Sarianna M Tuovinen, Yrjö T Konttinen, Tuula Salo, Faraz Bishehsari (2016). Distinctive expression pattern of interleukin-17 cytokine family members in colorectal cancer. Tumor Biology.

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Khafipour E, Li S, Tun HM, Derakhshani H, Moossavi S, and Plaizier JC (2016). Effects of grain feeding on microbiota in the digestive tract of cattle. Animal Frontiers.

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Vosough M, Moossavi S, Mardpour S, Akhlaghpoor S, Azimian V, Jarughi N, Hosseini SE, Ashrafi M, Nikfam S, Aghdami N, Malekzadeh R, Mohamadnejad M, Nikfam S, Baharvand H (2016). Repeated Intraportal Injection of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Combination with Pioglitazone in Patients with Compensated Cirrhosis: A clinical report of two cases. Archives of Iranian medicine.

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Mohamadnejad M, Vosough M, Moossavi S, Nikfam S, Mardpour S, Akhlaghpoor S, Ashrafi M, Azimian V, Jarughi N, Hosseini SE, Bagheri M, Aghdami N, Malekzadeh R, Baharvand H (2016). Intraportal Infusion of Bone Marrow Mononuclear or CD133+ Cells in Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial. Stem Cells Translational Medicine.

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Moossavi S, Salimzadeh H, Katoonizadeh A, Mojarrad A, Merat D, Ansari R, Vahedi H, Merat S, Malekzadeh R (2015). Physicians’ attitude towards fecal microbiota transplant in Iran. Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases.

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Brown M, Hughes KR, Moossavi S, Robins A, Mahida YR (2014). Toll-like receptor expression in crypt epithelial cells, putative stem cells and intestinal myofibroblasts isolated from controls and patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Clinical and Experimental Immunology.

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(2014). The Necessity for an Iranian Gut Microbiome Initiative. Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases.

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Moossavi S, Zhang H, Sun J, Rezaei N (2013). Host-microbiota interaction and intestinal stem cells in chronic inflammation and colorectal cancer. Expert Review of Clinical Immunology.

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