COVID-19 virus is probably the most difficult virus to find in humans. It spreads quickly, has fewer symptoms, and has a longer incubation period. Now it has discovered a new potential way of infection.
On March 28, Ning Guang, the director of Ruijin Hospital, revealed at the "Seminar on Basic Research and Prevention of Virus Evolution, Evolution, and Transmission" that virus erosion and sexual transmission were found on the spermatogenic cells of patients with COVID-19 virus pneumonia. May also be one of the routes of transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
Prior to this, research on the effect of COVID-19 virus on male fertility has attracted attention. First, the team of Professor Li Yufeng of the Reproductive Medicine Center of Tongji Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology has theoretically speculated that COVID-19 virus may cause testicular damage, affect sperm production and androgens Synthesis, which in turn affects male fertility.
However, their paper was subsequently withdrawn. However, Zhang Ming, associate professor of the Center for Reproductive Medicine of Wuhan University's Central South Hospital, recently found that the levels of serum luteinizing hormone (LH) and prolactin in male patients with COVID-19 were significantly increased, and testosterone and follicle stimulating hormone were relatively high. The ratio to LH was significantly reduced.
The study believes that although semen parameters are a direct reflection of gonad function, changes in the above indicators provide the first indirect clinical evidence for COVID-19 virus to attack testicular function.
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