Version 1
: Received: 24 June 2020 / Approved: 26 June 2020 / Online: 26 June 2020 (12:37:35 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 6 July 2020 / Approved: 6 July 2020 / Online: 6 July 2020 (09:48:39 CEST)
How to cite:
Montano, L.; Bonapace, I.M.; Donato, F.; Bianco, P.M.; Guglielmino, A.; Piscopo, M. Semen Quality as a Potential Susceptibility Indicator to SARS-CoV-2 Insults in Polluted Areas. Preprints2020, 2020060314. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0314.v2
Montano, L.; Bonapace, I.M.; Donato, F.; Bianco, P.M.; Guglielmino, A.; Piscopo, M. Semen Quality as a Potential Susceptibility Indicator to SARS-CoV-2 Insults in Polluted Areas . Preprints 2020, 2020060314. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0314.v2
Montano, L.; Bonapace, I.M.; Donato, F.; Bianco, P.M.; Guglielmino, A.; Piscopo, M. Semen Quality as a Potential Susceptibility Indicator to SARS-CoV-2 Insults in Polluted Areas. Preprints2020, 2020060314. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0314.v2
APA Style
Montano, L., Bonapace, I.M., Donato, F., Bianco, P.M., Guglielmino, A., & Piscopo, M. (2020). Semen Quality as a Potential Susceptibility Indicator to SARS-CoV-2 Insults in Polluted Areas<strong> </strong>. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0314.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
Montano, L., Antonino Guglielmino and Marina Piscopo. 2020 "Semen Quality as a Potential Susceptibility Indicator to SARS-CoV-2 Insults in Polluted Areas<strong> </strong>" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202006.0314.v2
Abstract
High levels of air pollution can contribute to high rate of the COVID-19 outbreaks. Air pollutants induce oxidative stress, inflammatory process, immune imbalance and coagulation at systemic level, making the organism susceptible to complications caused by various pathogens, including viruses, resulting in a possible important damage co-factor. Sperm cells are highly sensitive to the pro-oxidant effects of environmental pollutants, and may represent an important alarm bell indicating that the burden of environmental pressure in a certain area is causing damage to humans. A comparison of the maps of COVID-19 case fatality rates, male infertility rates and air pollution may suggest a way to understand the dynamics of the virus impact. Semen quality may be considered as an early and sensitive environmental marker, and also a potential susceptibility indicator to viral insults (including SARS-CoV-2 ) in heavily polluted areas. Therefore, assessing the burden of environmental exposure of a given population and its potential susceptibility to insults through early biological stress indicators may be helpful for predicting the risk of the adverse effects by the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic .
Keywords
air pollution; COVID-19; semen quality; environmental marker; health marker; oxidative stress
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Urology and Nephrology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
6 July 2020
Commenter:
Luigi Montano
Commenter's Conflict of Interests:
Author
Comment:
Dear Editor,we made some very slight changes to the abstract and to the text with the addition of some references and No2 values to the main figure.
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Commenter: Luigi Montano
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