jimnyc
04-19-2020, 03:08 PM
Gentlemen, I truly hate to be the bearer of such horribly bad news. But break out the pain killers and cut your eggs off, your pelotas, your palles, your virus holding bolas & for the gents where it all started, your 球.
I know you like them and a little used to having them dangling around. And I KNOW all too well that they can be a little sensitive at times. So if you have connections to someone who can maybe knock you out for this procedure, call in that favor now!
But cut them, bounce them, deflate them, kick them across the room, pop them or do what ya need. But the LA Times are now reporting and raising my level of fear on my old friends. So take it for what it's worth.
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Do testicles make men more vulnerable to the coronavirus?
Men contending with coronavirus infection may have a pair of vulnerabilities that could increase their risk of longer, more severe illness: their testicles.
A pilot study that tracked the clearance of the virus from patients in Mumbai, India, offered further evidence that men are indeed harder hit by the pathogen. And it offered a theoretical explanation for that gender disparity that focuses on the cells that the coronavirus is most drawn to.
Those cells serve as the front door for the coronavirus because they express a protein called angiotensin converting enzyme 2, which the virus just happens to bind with.
In both men and women, these ACE2 proteins, or receptors, are plentiful in the lungs, the gastrointestinal tract and the heart. Not surprisingly, all of those tissues are vulnerable to attack from the virus that causes COVID-19.
Testicular tissue also pumps out ACE2 receptors at a high rate. Ovarian tissue does not.
A group of researchers led by an oncologist in New York and her mother, a microbiologist in Mumbai, has put forth a hypothesis it acknowledges is highly preliminary: that the testes may harbor the SARS-CoV-2 virus in men, providing it sanctuary from the immune system.
While women offer the coronavirus plenty of opportunities to enter their cells, men’s testes may give the virus an extra point of entry. And since the testicles are walled off from the immune system, they may be among the last hiding places from which the virus is driven out.
The hypothesis was presented in a preliminary report posted on MedRxiv, a website on which researchers share their unpublished work. Unlike studies published in medical journals, it has not yet been subjected to scrutiny by other researchers.
Rest - https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-18/do-testicles-make-men-more-vulnerable-to-coronavirus
I know you like them and a little used to having them dangling around. And I KNOW all too well that they can be a little sensitive at times. So if you have connections to someone who can maybe knock you out for this procedure, call in that favor now!
But cut them, bounce them, deflate them, kick them across the room, pop them or do what ya need. But the LA Times are now reporting and raising my level of fear on my old friends. So take it for what it's worth.
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Do testicles make men more vulnerable to the coronavirus?
Men contending with coronavirus infection may have a pair of vulnerabilities that could increase their risk of longer, more severe illness: their testicles.
A pilot study that tracked the clearance of the virus from patients in Mumbai, India, offered further evidence that men are indeed harder hit by the pathogen. And it offered a theoretical explanation for that gender disparity that focuses on the cells that the coronavirus is most drawn to.
Those cells serve as the front door for the coronavirus because they express a protein called angiotensin converting enzyme 2, which the virus just happens to bind with.
In both men and women, these ACE2 proteins, or receptors, are plentiful in the lungs, the gastrointestinal tract and the heart. Not surprisingly, all of those tissues are vulnerable to attack from the virus that causes COVID-19.
Testicular tissue also pumps out ACE2 receptors at a high rate. Ovarian tissue does not.
A group of researchers led by an oncologist in New York and her mother, a microbiologist in Mumbai, has put forth a hypothesis it acknowledges is highly preliminary: that the testes may harbor the SARS-CoV-2 virus in men, providing it sanctuary from the immune system.
While women offer the coronavirus plenty of opportunities to enter their cells, men’s testes may give the virus an extra point of entry. And since the testicles are walled off from the immune system, they may be among the last hiding places from which the virus is driven out.
The hypothesis was presented in a preliminary report posted on MedRxiv, a website on which researchers share their unpublished work. Unlike studies published in medical journals, it has not yet been subjected to scrutiny by other researchers.
Rest - https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-18/do-testicles-make-men-more-vulnerable-to-coronavirus