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  1. Article ; Online: Effectiveness and safety of Jiejing Runmu decoction in treatment of dry eye disease.

    Xiaodan, Jiang / Yuanting, Li / Li, Xiaodan / Huibin, Lv / Nana, Zhao / Shuxuan, Lv / Yiren, Wang / Xuemin, Li

    Explore (New York, N.Y.)

    2024  

    Abstract: Objective: To investigate the effectiveness and safety of Jiejing Runmu decoction in relieving the clinical manifestations of dry eye disease (DED).: Design and interventions: This single-arm prospective intervention study was conducted at the Peking ...

    Abstract Objective: To investigate the effectiveness and safety of Jiejing Runmu decoction in relieving the clinical manifestations of dry eye disease (DED).
    Design and interventions: This single-arm prospective intervention study was conducted at the Peking University Third Hospital and People's Hospital of Yongqing. Of the 211 patients recruited, 200 completing the follow-up were included in the analysis. Patients received Jiejing Runmu decoction once a day for 4 weeks continuously, without any change in eye care habits. Individuals were evaluated at four time points: pretreatment (baseline), 2 weeks, 1 month, and 3 months (2 months after completion of treatment), using the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), tear film breakup time (TBUT), corneal fluorescein staining, Schirmer test I and meibomian gland assessments. Adverse effects were evaluated at each follow-up visit and systematic examinations were performed during the first and last visits.
    Results: OSDI, TBUT, corneal fluorescein staining, Schirmer test I, meibomian gland expressibility, and quality of secretions improved at 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months compared to baseline (P < 0.0001). No significant differences were found between the sexes. Patients above 45 years showed worse subjective symptoms and objective signs, and greater improvements in corneal fluorescein staining, meibomian gland expressibility, and quality of secretions were observed in this group. No obvious adverse effects were detected during any follow-up visit.
    Conclusion: Jiejing Runmu decoction significantly improved both the subjective symptoms and objective signs of DED, with favorable tolerance.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2183945-1
    ISSN 1878-7541 ; 1550-8307
    ISSN (online) 1878-7541
    ISSN 1550-8307
    DOI 10.1016/j.explore.2024.02.002
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  2. Article ; Online: Group membership modulates empathic neural responses to pain in deaf individuals.

    Wu, Xiangci / Jia, Huibin / Zhao, Kaibin / Guo, Mengshan / Lv, Xueqi / Ma, Yimin / Wang, Enguo

    Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

    2024  Volume 34, Issue 3

    Abstract: Empathy deficiencies are prevalent among deaf individuals. It has yet to be determined whether they exhibit an ingroup bias in empathic responses. This study employed explicit and implicit empathy tasks (i.e. attention-to-pain-cue [A-P] task and ... ...

    Abstract Empathy deficiencies are prevalent among deaf individuals. It has yet to be determined whether they exhibit an ingroup bias in empathic responses. This study employed explicit and implicit empathy tasks (i.e. attention-to-pain-cue [A-P] task and attention-to-nonpain-cue [A-N] task) to explore the temporal dynamics of neural activities when deaf individuals were processing painful/nonpainful stimuli from both ingroup models (deaf people) and outgroup models (hearing people), which aims to not only assist deaf individuals in gaining a deeper understanding of their intergroup empathy traits but also to aid in the advancement of inclusive education. In the A-P task, we found that (i) ingroup priming accelerated the response speed to painful/nonpainful pictures; (ii) the N2 amplitude of painful pictures was significantly more negative than that of nonpainful pictures in outgroup priming trials, whereas the N2 amplitude difference between painful and nonpainful pictures was not significant in ingroup priming trials. For N1 amplitude of the A-N task, we have similar findings. However, this pattern was reversed for P3/late positive component amplitude of the A-P task. These results suggest that the deaf individuals had difficulty in judging whether hearing individuals were in pain. However, their group identification and affective responses could shape the relatively early stage of pain empathy.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Empathy ; Pain/psychology ; Attention ; Reaction Time ; Group Processes ; Electroencephalography ; Evoked Potentials/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1077450-6
    ISSN 1460-2199 ; 1047-3211
    ISSN (online) 1460-2199
    ISSN 1047-3211
    DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhae113
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  3. Article: Natural variation in neuraminidase activity influences the evolutionary potential of the seasonal H1N1 lineage hemagglutinin.

    Liu, Tongyu / Reiser, William K / Tan, Timothy J C / Lv, Huibin / Rivera-Cardona, Joel / Heimburger, Kyle / Wu, Nicholas C / Brooke, Christopher B

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2024  

    Abstract: The antigenic evolution of the influenza A virus hemagglutinin (HA) gene poses a major challenge for the development of vaccines capable of eliciting long-term protection. Prior efforts to understand the mechanisms that govern viral antigenic evolution ... ...

    Abstract The antigenic evolution of the influenza A virus hemagglutinin (HA) gene poses a major challenge for the development of vaccines capable of eliciting long-term protection. Prior efforts to understand the mechanisms that govern viral antigenic evolution mainly focus on HA in isolation, ignoring the fact that HA must act in concert with the viral neuraminidase (NA) during replication and spread. Numerous studies have demonstrated that the degree to which the receptor binding avidity of HA and receptor cleaving activity of NA are balanced with each other influences overall viral fitness. We recently showed that changes in NA activity can significantly alter the mutational fitness landscape of HA in the context of a lab-adapted virus strain. Here, we test whether natural variation in relative NA activity can influence the evolutionary potential of HA in the context of the seasonal H1N1 lineage (pdmH1N1) that has circulated in humans since the 2009 pandemic. We observed substantial variation in the relative activities of NA proteins encoded by a panel of H1N1 vaccine strains isolated between 2009 and 2019. We comprehensively assessed the effect of NA background on the HA mutational fitness landscape in the circulating pdmH1N1 lineage using deep mutational scanning and observed pronounced epistasis between NA and residues in or near the receptor binding site of HA. To determine whether NA variation could influence the antigenic evolution of HA, we performed neutralizing antibody selection experiments using a panel of monoclonal antibodies targeting different HA epitopes. We found that the specific antibody escape profiles of HA were highly contingent upon NA background. Overall, our results indicate that natural variation in NA activity plays a significant role in governing the evolutionary potential of HA in the currently circulating pdmH1N1 lineage.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2024.03.18.585603
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  4. Article ; Online: Long-Term Efficacy of Orthokeratology to Control Myopia Progression.

    Lv, Huibin / Liu, Ziyuan / Li, Jiaxi / Wang, Yuexin / Tseng, Yulin / Li, Xuemin

    Eye & contact lens

    2023  Volume 49, Issue 9, Page(s) 399–403

    Abstract: Objectives: To assess the efficacy of orthokeratology in controlling the rate of myopia progression in children and investigate the factors associated with axial length (AL) growth rate with an average of 48 months of orthokeratology lens wear.: ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: To assess the efficacy of orthokeratology in controlling the rate of myopia progression in children and investigate the factors associated with axial length (AL) growth rate with an average of 48 months of orthokeratology lens wear.
    Methods: As a retrospective study, 84 subjects underwent relatively complete ophthalmologic examinations. After initial lens wear, AL was measured on average every 12 months. The linear mixed-effects model (LMM) was used to compare the differences in AL growth rates at each time interval. The contribution of the independent variables to AL change was assessed using multiple linear regression.
    Results: In the LMM, there was a significant difference in the AL growth rate ( P <0.001) at each follow-up. The growth rate of AL was associated with initial AL, spherical equivalent refractive errors (SERs) and diameter of lens ( P =0.045, 0.003 and 0.037, respectively). When the baseline age was included as a factor, the influence of initial AL and SER became insignificant in the analysis, whereas age and diameter of lens were significantly correlated with the growth rate of AL ( P< 0.001 and P< 0.001, respectively). There were significant differences in growth rates among different age groups.
    Conclusions: Results of the study demonstrated that the factors associated with lower growth rate in AL were older age and longer diameter of lens.
    MeSH term(s) Child ; Humans ; Retrospective Studies ; Corneal Topography ; Orthokeratologic Procedures/methods ; Axial Length, Eye ; Myopia/therapy ; Refraction, Ocular
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-20
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2103049-2
    ISSN 1542-233X ; 1542-2321
    ISSN (online) 1542-233X
    ISSN 1542-2321
    DOI 10.1097/ICL.0000000000001017
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  5. Book ; Online: Author response for "COVID‐19 vaccines

    Huibin Lv / Nicholas C. Wu / Chris K. P. Mok

    knowing the unknown"

    2020  

    Keywords covid19
    Publisher Wiley
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    DOI 10.1002/eji.202048663/v2/response1
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  6. Article ; Online: Lack of neutralizing antibodies against influenza A viruses in adults during the 2022/2023 winter season - a serological study using retrospective samples collected in Hong Kong.

    Liang, Weiwen / Lv, Huibin / Chen, Chunke / Sun, Yuanxin / Hui, David S / Mok, Chris Ka Pun

    International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases

    2023  Volume 135, Page(s) 1–4

    Abstract: Objectives: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there has been a significant decline in seasonal influenza infection cases in Hong Kong. However, this decline has also resulted in reduced opportunities for the development of influenza- ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there has been a significant decline in seasonal influenza infection cases in Hong Kong. However, this decline has also resulted in reduced opportunities for the development of influenza-specific antibodies in the community. The levels of antibodies required for protection against recently circulating influenza A viruses in the post-COVID-19 era remain unclear.
    Methods: This study involved the analysis of paired plasma samples collected from 479 healthy adults in Hong Kong in 2021 and 2022. The neutralizing titers of plasma against influenza A (H1N1) and (H3N2) viruses circulating before and after the COVID-19 outbreak were determined using a microneutralization assay.
    Results: The H1N1 and H3N2 vaccine strains selected for the 2022/23 season were found to be closely related to the recently circulating viruses. However, in the samples collected in 2022, only 14.61% and 0.42% showed a neutralization titer (MN50) ≥1:20 against H1N1 A/Wisconsin/588/2019 (H1/Wis19) and H3N2 A/Darwin/6/2021 (H3/Dar21), respectively. Notably, participants who reported receiving annual flu vaccinations exhibited a higher seropositive rate for H1/Wis19 compared to those who had never received the flu vaccine (28.06% vs. 5.30%).
    Conclusion: Our results indicate that adults in Hong Kong generally lack neutralizing antibodies against circulating influenza A viruses, particularly H3N2. These findings underscore the importance of promoting flu vaccination in the post-COVID-19 era.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Humans ; Antibodies, Neutralizing ; Influenza, Human/epidemiology ; Influenza, Human/prevention & control ; Influenza A virus ; Seasons ; Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype ; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype ; Hong Kong/epidemiology ; Pandemics ; Retrospective Studies ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; COVID-19/prevention & control ; Influenza Vaccines ; Antibodies, Viral
    Chemical Substances Antibodies, Neutralizing ; Influenza Vaccines ; Antibodies, Viral
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-20
    Publishing country Canada
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1331197-9
    ISSN 1878-3511 ; 1201-9712
    ISSN (online) 1878-3511
    ISSN 1201-9712
    DOI 10.1016/j.ijid.2023.07.008
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  7. Article: Stringent and complex sequence constraints of an IGHV1-69 broadly neutralizing antibody to influenza HA stem.

    Teo, Qi Wen / Wang, Yiquan / Lv, Huibin / Tan, Timothy J C / Lei, Ruipeng / Mao, Kevin J / Wu, Nicholas C

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2023  

    Abstract: IGHV1-69 is frequently utilized by broadly neutralizing influenza antibodies to the hemagglutinin (HA) stem. These IGHV1-69 HA stem antibodies have diverse complementarity-determining region (CDR) H3 sequences. Besides, their light chains have minimal to ...

    Abstract IGHV1-69 is frequently utilized by broadly neutralizing influenza antibodies to the hemagglutinin (HA) stem. These IGHV1-69 HA stem antibodies have diverse complementarity-determining region (CDR) H3 sequences. Besides, their light chains have minimal to no contact with the epitope. Consequently, sequence determinants that confer IGHV1-69 antibodies with HA stem specificity remain largely elusive. Using high-throughput experiments, this study revealed the importance of light chain sequence for the IGHV1-69 HA stem antibody CR9114, which is the broadest influenza antibody known to date. Moreover, we demonstrated that the CDR H3 sequences from many other IGHV1-69 antibodies, including those to HA stem, were incompatible with CR9114. Along with mutagenesis and structural analysis, our results indicate that light chain and CDR H3 sequences coordinately determine the HA stem specificity of IGHV1-69 antibodies. Overall, this work provides molecular insights into broadly neutralizing antibody responses to influenza virus, which have important implications for universal influenza vaccine development.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2023.07.06.547908
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  8. Article: Molecular analysis of a public cross-neutralizing antibody response to SARS-CoV-2.

    Yuan, Meng / Wang, Yiquan / Lv, Huibin / Wilson, Ian A / Wu, Nicholas C

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2022  

    Abstract: As SARS-CoV-2 variants of concerns (VOCs) continue to emerge, cross-neutralizing antibody responses become key towards next-generation design of a more universal COVID-19 vaccine. By analyzing published data from the literature, we report here that the ... ...

    Abstract As SARS-CoV-2 variants of concerns (VOCs) continue to emerge, cross-neutralizing antibody responses become key towards next-generation design of a more universal COVID-19 vaccine. By analyzing published data from the literature, we report here that the combination of germline genes IGHV2-5/IGLV2-14 represents a public antibody response to the receptor-binding domain (RBD) that potently cross-neutralizes all VOCs to date, including Omicron and its sub-lineages. Detailed molecular analysis shows that the complementarity-determining region H3 sequences of IGHV2-5/IGLV2-14-encoded RBD antibodies have a preferred length of 11 amino acids and a conserved HxIxxI motif. In addition, these antibodies have a strong allelic preference due to an allelic polymorphism at amino-acid residue 54 of IGHV2-5, which locates at the paratope. These findings have important implications for understanding cross-neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 and its heterogenicity at the population level as well as the development of a universal COVID-19 vaccine.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2022.05.17.492220
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  9. Article ; Online: COVID-19 vaccines: Knowing the unknown.

    Lv, Huibin / Wu, Nicholas C / Mok, Chris K P

    European journal of immunology

    2020  Volume 50, Issue 7, Page(s) 939–943

    Abstract: Vaccine development against SARS-CoV-2 has drawn attention around the globe due to the exploding pandemic. Although COVID-19 is caused by a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, previous research on other coronavirus vaccines, such as FIPV, SARS, and MERS, has ... ...

    Abstract Vaccine development against SARS-CoV-2 has drawn attention around the globe due to the exploding pandemic. Although COVID-19 is caused by a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, previous research on other coronavirus vaccines, such as FIPV, SARS, and MERS, has provided valuable information for the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccine. However, important knowledge gaps remain - some are specific to SARS-CoV-2, others are fundamental to immunology and vaccinology. Here, we discuss areas that need to be addressed for COVID-19 vaccine development, and what can be learned from examples of vaccine development in the past. Since the beginning of the outbreak, the research progress on COVID-19 has been remarkable. We are therefore optimistic about the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccine.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Clinical Trials as Topic ; Coronavirus Infections/immunology ; Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control ; Coronavirus Infections/therapy ; Drug Development ; Humans ; Pandemics/prevention & control ; Pneumonia, Viral/immunology ; Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control ; Pneumonia, Viral/therapy ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Viral Vaccines/immunology
    Chemical Substances COVID-19 Vaccines ; Viral Vaccines
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-06-24
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 120108-6
    ISSN 1521-4141 ; 0014-2980
    ISSN (online) 1521-4141
    ISSN 0014-2980
    DOI 10.1002/eji.202048663
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  10. Article ; Online: Stringent and complex sequence constraints of an IGHV1-69 broadly neutralizing antibody to influenza HA stem.

    Teo, Qi Wen / Wang, Yiquan / Lv, Huibin / Tan, Timothy J C / Lei, Ruipeng / Mao, Kevin J / Wu, Nicholas C

    Cell reports

    2023  Volume 42, Issue 11, Page(s) 113410

    Abstract: IGHV1-69 is frequently utilized by broadly neutralizing influenza antibodies to the hemagglutinin (HA) stem. These IGHV1-69 HA stem antibodies have diverse complementarity-determining region (CDR) H3 sequences. Besides, their light chains have minimal to ...

    Abstract IGHV1-69 is frequently utilized by broadly neutralizing influenza antibodies to the hemagglutinin (HA) stem. These IGHV1-69 HA stem antibodies have diverse complementarity-determining region (CDR) H3 sequences. Besides, their light chains have minimal to no contact with the epitope. Consequently, sequence determinants that confer IGHV1-69 antibodies with HA stem specificity remain largely elusive. Using high-throughput experiments, this study reveals the importance of light-chain sequence for the IGHV1-69 HA stem antibody CR9114, which is the broadest influenza antibody known to date. Moreover, we demonstrate that the CDR H3 sequences from many other IGHV1-69 antibodies, including those to the HA stem, are incompatible with CR9114. Along with mutagenesis and structural analysis, our results indicate that light-chain and CDR H3 sequences coordinately determine the HA stem specificity of IGHV1-69 antibodies. Overall, this work provides molecular insights into broadly neutralizing antibody responses to influenza virus, which have important implications for universal influenza vaccine development.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Influenza, Human ; Influenza Vaccines ; Hemagglutinins ; Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies ; Antibodies, Neutralizing ; Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus ; Antibodies, Viral ; Complementarity Determining Regions
    Chemical Substances Influenza Vaccines ; Hemagglutinins ; Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies ; Antibodies, Neutralizing ; Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus ; Antibodies, Viral ; Complementarity Determining Regions
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-16
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2649101-1
    ISSN 2211-1247 ; 2211-1247
    ISSN (online) 2211-1247
    ISSN 2211-1247
    DOI 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113410
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