Mingxing Huang's research while affiliated with The Third People's Hospital and other places

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Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is a highly contagious virus that poses a major threat to global health, representing the primary etiological agent for hand-foot and mouth disease (HFMD) and neurological complications. It has been established that interferon signaling is critical to establishing a robust antiviral state in host cells, mainly mediated thro...
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Whether hypervariable region 1 (HVR1)-targeting antibodies elicited during natural hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection contribute to virus clearance and what is the mechanism underlying remain unclear. Here, we demonstrated that treatment of HCV-infected hepatoma Huh7.5 cells with the IgGs purified from 2 of 28 (7.1%) chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patien...
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a new coronavirus causing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), is a major topic of global human health concern. The Delta and Omicron variants have caused alarming responses worldwide due to their high transmission rates and a number of mutations. During a one-year follow-up (from June 2...
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Background and aim Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the major global health challenges, leading to a significant increase in rates of hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. A comprehensive nationwide survey of trends in prevalence and associated factors could facilitate preventive behavioral interventions. Herein, we s...
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Emerging infectious diseases have brought a huge impact on human society in recent years. The outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas resulted in a large number of babies born with microcephaly. More seriously, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was globally spread and caused immeasurable damages. Thus, the monitoring of highly pathogeni...
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Zika virus (ZIKV) is a re-emerging flavivirus that leads to devastating consequences for fetal development. It is crucial to visualize the pathogenicity activities of ZIKV ranging from infection pathways to immunity processes, but the accurate labeling of ZIKV remains challenging due to the lack of a reliable labeling technique. We introduce the ph...
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Background and aims Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is an important and growing cause for the development of chronic liver diseases in the world. Bile acid (BA) levels are increased in patients with ALD and dysregulation of BA homeostasis worsens ALD. BA synthesis is critically regulated by fibroblast growth factor 15 (FGF15) in mice and FGF19 in hum...
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Background and aim: Several effective antiviral drugs are now available; however, the risk of liver-related complications is still present. Low-level viremia (LLV), defined as a hepatitis B virus (HBV) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) load lower than 2000 IU/mL, is one of the major factors responsible for these complications. It has been reported that 2...
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Background: A lot of recent researches have focused on the duration of the nature immunity elicited by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. An improved understanding of the immunity offered by the antibodies developed against SARS-CoV-2 in recovered patients is critical for the development of diagnostic tests and...
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Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii (Cb). From January 2018 to November 2019, plasma samples from 2,382 patients with acute fever of unknown cause at a hospital in Zhuhai city of China were tested using metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS). Of those tested, 138 patients (5.8%) were diagnosed with Q fever based on th...
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Background Emerging infectious disease have brought a huge impact on human society in recent years. The outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas resulted in a large number of babies born with microcephaly. More seriously, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused the global spreads and immeasurable damages. Thus, the monitoring of highly...
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Aeromonas dhakensis is an important ubiquitous Gram-negative and freshwater bacterium detected in different reservoirs. It can cause invasive diseases in humans. Herein, we report the first case in Mainland China of a fulminant death of a 29-year-old man as a result of a new, unexpected association between septicemic A. dhakensis and hepatitis B vi...
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Background: Tenofovir (TDF) has a detrimental effect on bone mineral density (BMD), while nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with a lower BMD. Objective: To help understand the mutual effects of NAFLD and TDF on BMD, this study was designed to explore the potential association between NAFLD and BMD in HIV-infected patients re...
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Effective therapies are urgently needed for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Chloroquine has been proved to have antiviral effect against coronavirus in vitro. In this study, we aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of chloroquine with different doses in COVID-19. In this multicenter prospective observational study, we enrolled patients older than 18 yea...
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Background: C. burnetti, the causative agent of Q fever, is considered a potential threat as a biological weapon because of highly infectious and pathogenic. There was an outbreak of Q fever in Zhuhai, P.R. China between December, 2018 and March 2019, although Zhuhai was not the endemic area of Q fever. 46 patients can be detected C. burnetti by me...
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Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 (caused by SARS-Cov-2) is very serious, and no effective antiviral treatment has yet been confirmed. The adage "old drug, new trick" in this context may suggest the important therapeutic potential of existing drugs. We found that the lopinavir/ritonavir treatment recommended in the fifth edition of the Treatmen...
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Alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) is one of the major causes of liver morbidity and mortality worldwide. We have previously shown that whole-body, but not hepatocyte-specific, deficiency of farnesoid X receptor (FXR) in mice worsens AFLD, suggesting that extrahepatic FXR deficiency is critical for AFLD development. Intestinal FXR is critical in...
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Background The outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia is very serious, and no effective antiviral treatment has been confirmed. The fresh drug research and development cycle is too long to meet clinical emergency needs, and "old drugs and brand new applications" have a huge therapeutic potential. During our previous treatment, we found that the lo...
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Background: To illustrate the extent of transmission, identify affecting risk factors and estimate epidemiological modeling parameters of SARS-CoV-2 in household setting. Methods: We enrolled 35 confirmed index cases and their 148 household contacts, January 2020-February 2020, in Zhuhai, China. All participants were interviewed and asked to com...
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Background Effective therapies are urgently needed for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Chloroquine has been proved to have antiviral effect against coronavirus in vitro. In this study, we aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of chloroquine with different doses in COVID-19. Method In this multicenter prospective observational study, we enrolled patients...
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Background: Since the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the health system capacity in highly endemic areas has been overwhelmed. Approaches to efficient management are urgently needed. We aimed to develop and validate a score for early prediction of clinical deterioration of COVID-19 patients. Methods: In this retrospective...
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Background The outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia is very serious, and no effective antiviral treatment has been confirmed. The fresh drug research and development cycle is too long to meet clinical emergency needs, and "old drugs and brand new applications" have a huge therapeutic potential. During our previous treatment, we found that the lo...
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The rapidly emerging human health crisis associated with the Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic and its link to severe complications highlights the growing need to identify the mechanisms by which ZIKV accesses hosts. Interferon response protects host cells against viral infection, while the cellular factors that mediate this defense are the products of in...
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Recent studies have investigated the roles of FXR deficiency in the pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease (ALD). However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, FXR knockout (FXR-/-) and wild-type (WT) mice were subjected to chronic-plus-binge alcohol feeding to study the effect of FXR deficiency on ALD development. Th...
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Emerging evidence has shown that FXR activation ameliorates the development of alcoholic liver diseases (ALD) while whole-body deficiency of FXR in mice leads to more severe ALD. However, it’s unknown whether the enhanced susceptibility to ALD development in FXR−/− mice is due to deficiency of hepatic FXR or increased toxicity secondary to increase...
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The role of intestine-derived factors in promoting liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy (PHx) are not entirely known, but bile acids (BAs) and fibroblast growth factor 15 (Fgf15) that is highly expressed in the mouse ileum could promote hepatocyte proliferation. Fgf15 strongly suppresses the synthesis of BAs and emerging evidence indicates...
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The hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) is an important target for antiviral response in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. However, the correlation between HBcAg in the hepatocyte nucleus and nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) therapeutic response is unclear. We sought to evaluate the role of HBcAg by analysing liver biopsies for viral response in NA-naïve...
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Background The antiviral effect of HBV in different nucleos (t) ide analogues is still not well known. This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of lamivudine (LMV), adefovir dipivoxil (ADV), telbivudine (LdT), and entecavir (ETV) monotherapy in chronic HBeAg-negative hepatitis B patients with medium load of HBV DNA. Material/Methods T...
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The leading cause of acute liver failure (ALF) is hepatotoxicity from acetaminophen (APAP) overdose. However, limited options are available to treat this ALF so stimulating liver regeneration maybe a potential treatment. Our previous study has shown that fibroblast growth factor 15 (FGF15) plays a crucial role in liver regeneration, but the roles o...
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Background/Aims Many patients had to transfer to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) if there is other nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) resistance. We aimed to investigate antiviral effects of TDF monotherapy between NA-naive and NA-experienced chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients in China. Methods A total of 102 NA-naive and NA-experienced CHB patients...
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Background and objectives: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) therapy is a therapeutic option for nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA)-experienced chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of TDF alone compared with the efficacy of TDF plus additional NA combinations in NA-experience...
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Objectives: To compare entecavir (ETV) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) effects in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with high HBV DNA. Method: 96 patients treated initially with tenofovir (TDF group) or entecavir (ETV group) were included in this retrospective study. The following parameters were assessed: HBeAg and hepatitis B e antibo...
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Background: Nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs) including lamivudine (LAM), telbivudine (LDT), adefovir dipivoxil(ADV), and entecavir (ETV) have been widely used as anti-HBV drugs. We aimed to study the effectiveness and safety of various NAs. Methods: Two thousand three hundred and eighty patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) were enrolled. The rat...
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Aims . This study aimed to investigate miR-106a expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients and to analyze the function of miR-106a. Materials and Methods . miR-106a expression levels in PBMCs from 40 healthy controls and 56 CHB patients were analyzed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reac...
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Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and entecavir (ETV) have been accepted as the standard treatment drugs for hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation. We aim to compare the efficacy and safety of TDF and ETV initial treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. We retrospectively analyzed the efficacy and safety of TDF treatment on 33 CHB patients...
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The change of CD4+/CD8+ T cells ratio happened when HIV-1 infect in immune system of human. However, the mechanisms between CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are unclear. This study aimed to compare the transcriptional profiles in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from HIV-1 infected patients with bioinformatics methods. The gene expression profile GSE6740, including 40 m...

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... The diversity of T cells, which play an important role in viral elimination (Kumar et al., 2018), gradually decreases and shows a sharp decline after age 40 years (Simnica et al., 2019). One study showed that in patients with Omicron, younger people had higher levels of neutralizing antibodies (Liang et al., 2022). These differences may allow faster and more efficient viral clearing in younger patients, without significantly affecting the immune system, so that their lymphocyte counts remain within the normal range; this is supported by evidence that clinical symptoms among younger patients are relatively mild compared with those of older adults (Davies et al., 2020). ...
... Additionally, AgNPs extracted from T. quadrivalvis have shown strong antiviral activity against various respiratory viruses such as Influenza A and human respiratory syncytial virus. The combination of AgNPs and macrolides can potentially be used in treating respiratory tract infections induced by these viruses, providing a new approach to the treatment of these infections [51]. ...
... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancy in China, accounting for 75-85% of liver cancer [1], which is associated to chronic hepatitis B infection (about 80%) [2,3]. Surgery is the most effective treatment for HCC. ...
... Asian countries near Vietnam, such as China and Korea have all recorded the presence of C. burnetii; the study by Huang et al (16) recorded an outbreak of a C. burnetii infection in a city in China (16). The study by Bae et al (17) conducted in Korea, recorded 8/40 cases of C. burnetii negative blood culture endocarditis using PCR analysis (17). ...
... consequences. However, several clinical trials that assessed the safety and efficacy of CQ administration in COVID-19 patients concluded in controversial results [42]. In light of our results, one might speculate that the blood compartment in association with this drug might have been disregarded. ...
... Several studies have shown that Aeromonas spp. intrinsically carry various bla OXA genes in their genomes that include the bla OXA-12 gene (Dubey et al., 2022a,b) previously detected in A. media, A. jandaei, A. sobria, A. dhakensis, and A. hydrophila (Rasmussen et al., 1994;Alksne and Rasmussen, 1997;Hilt et al., 2020;Huang et al., 2020;Dubey et al., 2022a) being in line with its presence in strain Ah5S-24 while bla FOX-7 previously reported in A. media and Phylogenetic tree comparing the tet(E) gene from different bacteria species. Note that the tet(E) Aeromonas veronii strain AhS5-24 had 100% similarity with tet(E) genes from other bacteria species that include Aeromonas caviae (BBR12376.1, ...
... Their data showed that patients with NAFLD showed a worse BMD status than those without NAFLD. The incidence rates of osteopenia (42.86% versus 25.93%) and osteoporosis (17.14% versus 3.70%) were significantly higher in PLWHIV with NAFLD than in those without NAFLD, and the odds ratio (OR) for patients with NAFLD exhibiting a worse BMD status compared with those without NAFLD was 4.49 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.42, 14.15) [68]. Therefore, further research is needed to establish a link between all of these metabolic changes and the risk of osteoporosis in PLWHIV. ...
... In precise, CQ is extensively used as immunomodulator with anti-malarial activity [74][75][76][77][78]. Recently, an in vitro study revealed that, SARS-CoV-2 growth was found to be inhibited by CQ and these results have been reinforced by clinical trials on approximately 100 patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 [56,57,79,80]. In addition, it is more toxic than HCQ [54,55] and an overdose of CQ can be the reason of acute poisoning and death [81]. ...
... Due to the antimicrobial nature of bile, it was previously thought that the biliary tract is sterile in nature. However, recent evidences have suggested the existence of the biliary microbiome which is more diverse than the intestinal microbiome [144,145]. ...
... 15 Similar secondary infection rates have been reported in China. 16 It could be argued that the subjects of these research were not home-isolating at the time of the secondary infection within their household, but it does not undermine the fact that at least 60-70% of transmission was within households; 10 times more than any other single route. 17 Since home-isolation is solely hinged on the personal compliance of an individual, therefore it inevitably could lead to increased transmission. ...