Coronavirus may damage the testicles, even if it doesn't directly infect them, a new study suggests. Researchers at Tufts University and Gongii Medical College in China could find little evidence of the virus in men's testicles, but they did find damage that could harm fertility in several types of testicular cells. The most disturbing changes they found in men who were covid-positive were to the seminiferous tubules, small structures in the testes that produce and maintain sperm. The researchers biopsied testicular tissue from 12 men who died of coronavirus. Although the virus didn't seem to have binded to the testicular cells - with one exception - these particularly impacted groups of Sertoli and Leydig cells do have ACE2 receptors.

Source: Daily Mail June 05, 2020 00:21 UTC