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Immune system adaptation during gender-affirming testosterone treatment Lakshmikanth, Tadepally; Consiglio, Camila; Sardh, Fabian; Forlin, Rikard; Wang, Jun; Tan, Ziyang; Barcenilla, Hugo; Rodriguez, Lucie; Sugrue, Jamie; Noori, Peri; Ivanchenko, Margarita; Piñero Páez, Laura; Gonzalez, Laura...

Quantitative Proteomics of COVID-19 Recovered Patients Identifies Long-Term Changes in Sperm Proteins Leading to Cellular Stress in Spermatozoa Chopra, Parul; Tomar, Anil Kumar; Thapliyal, Ayushi; Ranjan, Piyush; Datta, Sudip Kumar; Yadav, Savita Following an initial recovery, COVID-19...

Sex differences in symptomatology and immune profiles of Long COVID Julio Silva; Takehiro Takahashi; Jamie Wood; Peiwen Lu; Sasha Tabachnikova; Jeffrey Gehlhausen; Kerrie Greene; Bornali Bhattacharjee; Valter Silva Monteiro; Carolina Lucas; Rahul Dhodapkar; Laura Tabacof; Mario Pena-Hernandez...

Link to the published paper ******* Sex and disease severity-based analysis of steroid hormones in ME/CFS Preprint Abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating disease characterized by decreased daily activity and persistent fatigue after physical...

We've seen some suggestions of low testosterone in men with ME/CFS and Long covid. Not in all men of course, but some reports of a trend in that direction. I've heard it suggested that the drop in testosterone was essentially part of the sickness response, the idea being that, if a man is...

Abstract After the acute phase of COVID-19, some patients have been reported to have persistent symptoms including general fatigue. We have established a COVID-19 aftercare clinic (CAC) to provide care for an increasing number of these patients. Here, we report the case of a 36-year-old man...

Abstract The pathogenesis and prognosis of post COVID-19 condition have remained unclear. We set up an outpatient clinic specializing in long COVID in February 2021 and we have been investigating post COVID-19 condition. Based on the results of our earlier study showing that “general fatigue”...

From what I can see, there's a lot of conjecture here, more than anything else. It's looking at the role of hormones in autoimmune diseases, and whether testosterone is protective. There are a few links to small/emerging studies. Info here...

Male-specific IL-33 expression regulates sex-dimorphic EAE susceptibility Abigail E. Russi, Mark E. Ebel, Yuchen Yang and Melissa A. Brown PNAS 2018; published ahead of print January 29, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710401115 Add to Cart ($10) Edited by David Artis, Weill Cornell...

Open access at http://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(17)30804-0/fulltext