Malathi Shivaji Rao

About

Malathi Shivaji Rao is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Chicago. Her clinical interests include Botox therapy, epilepsy, general neurology, headaches, migraine headaches, and seizures. She is affiliated with the Biological Sciences Division and the University of Chicago Medicine, contributing to the academic and clinical community through her expertise in neurology. Her contact information is provided for professional and patient engagement, and she is involved in research and clinical practice within her specialized fields.

Research topics

• Biology
• Immunology
• Sociology
• Pathology
• Neuroscience
• Genetics
• Evolutionary biology
• Ecology
• Computational biology
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Navigating the Human Gut Microbiome: Pathway to Success from Lessons Learned

  Gastroenterology · 2020 · 19 citations

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• A new role for microbiota? Dulling the thrust of serotonin and 5-HT₃ signaling cascade

  American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology · 2017-05-26 · 5 citations

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• Gut Microbes and the Liver Circadian Clock Partition Glucose and Lipid Metabolism

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022-05-25 · 2 citations

  preprintOpen access

  Summary Circadian rhythms govern glucose homeostasis, and their dysregulation leads to complex metabolic diseases. Gut microbes also exhibit diurnal rhythms that influence host circadian networks and metabolic processes, yet underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we show hierarchical, bi-directional communication between the liver circadian clock, gut microbes, and glucose homeostasis in mice. The liver clock, but not the forebrain clock, requires gut microbes to drive glucose clearance and…

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• Dancing to circadian rhythms: microbes and metabolism

  The Biochemist · 2017-04-01 · 1 citations

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  Since the turn of the 21st century, two advances in biology have revolutionized our thinking of human metabolism. First, is the in-depth characterization of a previously recognized, but hitherto poorly defined organ system, the gut microbiome. This microbial organ exquisitely interacts with the diet which greatly influences its metabolic functions to impact host metabolism through the production of small bioactive molecules that continuously enter the bloodstream to act at local and distant orga…

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• Tu1399 The Bile Acid (BA), Lithocholic Acid (LCA) Alters Multiple Signaling Cascades in Human T84 Colonic Cells, but Attenuates Forskolin (FSK) Induced Cl− Secretion Only via Interfering With cAMP Production and Basolateral Membrane (BLM) K+ Conductances

  Gastroenterology · 2015-04-01

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01AM034270

  NIH · $107k · 1988

• NIH Grant R01DK034270

  NIH · $165k · 1988

• NIH Grant R01DK058135

  NIH · $1.3M · 2008

Frequent coauthors

• Eugene B. Chang

  University of Chicago

  58 shared

• Crescence Bookstein

  40 shared

• Jayashree Sarathy

  Benedictine University

  36 shared

• Mei Ao

  University of Illinois Chicago

  35 shared

• Chaivat Toskulkao

  Ministry of Science and Technology Thailand

  22 shared

• Manoocher Soleimani

  New Mexico VA Health Care System

  21 shared

• Mark W. Musch

  University of Chicago

  20 shared

• Jayashree Venkatasubramanian

  19 shared

Labs

• Malathi RaoPI

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