Carr Lab

Recent Publications

Carr RM. Reflections of a Black woman physician-scientist. J Clin Invest. 2020 Sep 24. doi: 10.1172/JCI144525.

Rabiee A, Sadowski B, Adeniji N, Perumalswami P, Nguyen V, Moghe A, Latt N, Kumar S, Aloman C, Catana AM, Bloom PP, Chavin K, Carr RM, Dunn W, Chen V, Aby ES, Debes J, Dhanasekaran R; COLD Consortium. Liver Injury in Liver Transplant Recipients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): US Multicenter Experience. Hepatology. 2020 Sep 22. doi: 10.1002/hep.31574

Kim D, Adeniji N, Latt N, Kumar S, Bloom PP, Aby ES, Perumalswami P, Roytman M, Li M, Vogel AS, Catana AM, Wegermann K, Carr RM, Aloman C, Chen V, Rabiee A, Sadowski B, Nguyen V, Dunn W, Chavin K, Zhou K, Lizaola-Mayo B, Moghe A, Debes J, Lee TH, Branch A, Viveiros K, Chan W, Chascsa D, Kwo P, Dhanasekaran R. Predictors of Outcomes of COVID-19 in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease: US Multi-center Study. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Sep 17. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2020.09.027.

Serper M, Vujkovic M, Kaplan DE, Carr RM, Lee KM, Shao Q, Miller DR, Reaven PD, Phillips LS, O'Donnell CJ, Meigs JB, Wilson PWF, Vickers-Smith R, Kranzler HR, Justice AC, Gaziano JM, Muralidhar S, Pyarajan S, DuVall SL, Assimes TL, Lee JS, Tsao PS, Rader DJ, Damrauer SM, Lynch JA, Saleheen D, Voight BF, Chang KM; VA Million Veteran Program. Validating a non-invasive, ALT-based non-alcoholic fatty liver phenotype in the million veteran program. PLoS One. 2020 Aug 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237430.

Carr RM. Nature or Nurture? The Answer Is "Both" in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2020.06.003

McMahan RH, Afshar M, Amedee AM, Bishehsari F, Carr RM, Coleman LG, Herrnreiter CJ, Lewis SL, Mandrekar P, McCullough RL, Morris NL, Vasiliou V, Wang HJ, Yeligar SM, Choudhry MA, Kovacs EJ. Summary of the 2019 alcohol and immunology research interest group (AIRIG) meeting: Alcohol-mediated mechanisms of multiple organ injury. Alcohol. 2020 Sep. DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2020.04.008

Tong X, Dai C, Walker JT, Nair GG, Kennedy A, Carr RM, Hebrok M, Powers AC, Stein R. Lipid Droplet Accumulation in Human Pancreatic Islets Is Dependent On Both Donor Age and Health. Diabetes. 2020 Mar. doi: 10.2337/db19-0281

Correnti J, Lin C, Brettschneider J, Kuriakose A, Jeon S, Scorletti E, Oranu A, McIver-Jenkins D, Kaneza I, Buyco D, Saiman Y, Furth EE, Argemi J, Bataller R, Holland WL, Carr RM. Liver-specific ceramide reduction alleviates steatosis and insulin resistance in alcohol-fed mice. J Lipid Res. 2020 Jul. doi: 10.1194/jlr.RA119000446.

Carr RM. α-Galactosylceramide: a potent immunomodulator produced by gut microbes. J Lipid Res. 2019 Nov. doi: 10.1194/jlr.C119000437.

Agbim U, Carr RM, Pickett-Blakely O, Dagogo-Jack S. Ethnic Disparities in Adiposity: Focus on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Visceral, and Generalized Obesity. Curr Obes Rep. 2019 Sep. doi: 10.1007/s13679-019-00349-x.

Jascha Brettschneider*, Jason M. Correnti*, Chelsea Lin, Bianca Williams, Amanke Oranu, Amy Kuriakose, Dru McIver-Jenkins, Abigail Haba, Isabelle Kaneza, Sookyoung Jeon, Eleonora Scorletti, Rotonya M. Carr. Rapid Lipid Droplet Isolation Protocol Using a Well-established Organelle Isolation Kit. Jove 2019 April https://www.jove.com/video/59290/rapid-lipid-droplet-isolation-protocol-using-well-established *These authors contributed equally

Carethers JM, Quezada SM, Carr RM, Day LW. Diversity Within US Gastroenterology Physician Practices: The Pipeline, Cultural Competencies, and Gastroenterology Societies Approaches. Gastroenterology. 2018 Nov 17. DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2018.10.056

Pickett-Blakely O, Young K, Carr RM. Micronutrients in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Pathogenesis. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2018.07.004

Carr RM, Prestwich A, Kwasnicka D, Thøgersen-Ntoumani C, Gucciardi DF, Quested E, Hall LH, Ntoumanis N. Dyadic interventions to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour: systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Psychol Rev. 2019 Mar. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2018.1532312.

Correnti JM, Gottshall L, Lin A, Williams B, Oranu A, Beck J, Chen J, Bennett MJ, Carr RM. Ethanol and C2 ceramide activate fatty acid oxidation in human hepatoma cells. Sci Rep. 2018 Aug 27. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31025-0.

Friedman ES, Li Y, Shen TD, Jiang J, Chau L, Adorini L, Babakhani F, Edwards J, Shapiro D, Zhao C, Carr RM, Bittinger K, Li H, Wu GD. FXR-Dependent Modulation of the Human Small Intestinal Microbiome by the Bile Acid Derivative Obeticholic Acid. Gastroenterology. 2018 Dec. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2018.08.022. 

Carr RM. Proton pump inhibitors, Enterococcus, and the liver, oh my! Hepatology. 2018 Jul. doi: 10.1002/hep.29822.

Ogdie A, Grewal SK, Noe MH, Shin DB, Takeshita J, Chiesa Fuxench ZC, Carr RM, Gelfand JM. Risk of Incident Liver Disease in Patients with Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis, and Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-Based Study. J Invest Dermatol. 2018 Apr. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2017.10.024.

Williams B, Correnti J, Oranu A, Lin A, Scott V, Annoh M, Beck J, Furth E, Mitchell V, Senkal CE, Obeid L, Carr RM. A novel role for ceramide synthase 6 in mouse and human alcoholic steatosis. FASEB J. 2018 Jan. doi: 10.1096/fj.201601142R.