Rong Rong Huang, Jenna M Giafaglione, Takao Hashimoto, Liying Zhang, Weibo Yu, Jianyu Rao, Joshua W Russo, Steven P Balk, Nicholas G Nickols, Mathew B Rettig, Andrew Goldstein, Huihui Ye
{"title":"Androgen Drives the Expression of SARS-CoV-2 Entry Proteins in Sinonasal Tissue.","authors":"Rong Rong Huang, Jenna M Giafaglione, Takao Hashimoto, Liying Zhang, Weibo Yu, Jianyu Rao, Joshua W Russo, Steven P Balk, Nicholas G Nickols, Mathew B Rettig, Andrew Goldstein, Huihui Ye","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00031","DOIUrl":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Men have higher morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 than women, possibly due to androgen receptor-regulated viral entry protein expression. This led to a clinical trial of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), which has not shown a significant benefit in the outcomes among hospitalized male COVID-19 patients. The aim of this study was to explore biological explanations for the failure of ADT to mitigate clinical outcomes in men with severe COVID-19 by assessing the role of androgen in regulating viral entry protein expression in the upper and lower respiratory tract.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Immunohistochemistry was used to assess the expression of transmembrane serine protease 2 (TMPRSS2) and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and how it correlated to androgen receptor expression in the sinonasal epithelium, minor salivary glands of the sinus, lacrimal glands, and lungs from mice pretreated with and without castration and ADT as well as the sinonasal epithelium obtained from healthy human donors and hospitalized COVID-19 patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In murine models, castration and ADT treatment downregulated the expression of TMPRSS2 and ACE2 in the sinonasal epithelium, minor salivary glands of the sinus, and lacrimal glands, but not in the lungs. Correlative analyses using human tissue also showed a potential role of ADT in men during the early sinonasal phase but not in the later lung phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study suggests a potential benefit of ADT in male patients with early COVID-19 when the virus enters the nasopharynx, but not in those with advanced disease. The downregulation of viral entry proteins in the upper respiratory system following androgen blockade may be a key mechanism for this effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":"49-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11449218/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47933068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jianhong Li, M. Ettel, A. Amin, R. Bhalla, K. Das, F. Deng, Peng Lee, A. Matoso, J. Melamed, Savvas E Mendrinos, Wei Tian, O. Yaskiv, R. Shah, M. Zhou
{"title":"Interobserver Reproducibility of Quantifying Gleason Pattern 4 Cancer in Prostate Biopsy: Implications for Clinical Practice","authors":"Jianhong Li, M. Ettel, A. Amin, R. Bhalla, K. Das, F. Deng, Peng Lee, A. Matoso, J. Melamed, Savvas E Mendrinos, Wei Tian, O. Yaskiv, R. Shah, M. Zhou","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47307495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pseudotumor Associated with a Bioabsorbable Screw in a Patient with Reconstructed Congenital Absence of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament: a Case report","authors":"Yaxia Zhang, T. Bauer, S. Rodeo","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45094395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review and Update on Epithelial Tumors of the Anal Canal","authors":"Xiaoyan Liao","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45660409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prognosis and Immunotherapy Prediction Based on Immunogenic Cell Death-related lncRNA in Gastric Cancer","authors":"Qinian Jiang, Zhengshan Liu, Hang Yang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49584921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shulin Wu, Sharron X. Lin, G. Wirth, Alexander O. Subtelny, Min Lu, Jian Lu, Zongwei Wang, A. Olumi, D. Dahl, M. Blute, Chin-Lee Wu
{"title":"The Clinical Significance of the Positive Surgical Margin and Dominant Tumor Laterality Following Radical Prostatectomy: A Retrospective Study","authors":"Shulin Wu, Sharron X. Lin, G. Wirth, Alexander O. Subtelny, Min Lu, Jian Lu, Zongwei Wang, A. Olumi, D. Dahl, M. Blute, Chin-Lee Wu","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46346717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Frequency of HES1 Loss in Colorectal Adenocarcinomas with RAS/BRAF Mutations","authors":"W. Chen, Lan Zhou, Wei Xin","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48514651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rare Entities and Emerging Issues in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology","authors":"F. Yin, Huamin Wang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42216797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association of Elevated Serum Soluble Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-1 with 90-day Outcomes of Patients with Acute-on-chronic Liver Failure: A Cohort Study","authors":"Yue Huang, Jun-Jun Cai, T. Han","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48373241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}