Targeting androgen regulation of TMPRSS2 and ACE2 as a therapeutic strategy to combat COVID-19

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.16.342782: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    No key resources detected.


    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Limitations of the study: Androgen plays a vital role in the human immune response, which we did not address in this paper. Research aimed at characterizing the androgen axis in context with SARS-CoV-2 infection will continue in the future.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04397718RecruitingHormonal Intervention for the Treatment in Veterans With COV…
    NCT04446429CompletedAnti-Androgen Treatment for COVID-19
    NCT04374279WithdrawnTrial to Promote Recovery From COVID-19 With Endocrine Thera…
    NCT04475601RecruitingEnzalutamide Treatment in COVID-19
    NCT04353284RecruitingCamostat Mesylate in COVID-19 Outpatients
    NCT04470544RecruitingCamostat Mesilate Treating Patients With Hospitalized Patien…
    NCT04374019RecruitingNovel Agents for Treatment of High-risk COVID-19 Positive Pa…
    NCT04355052RecruitingOpen Label Study to Compare Efficacy, Safety and Tolerabilit…
    NCT04321096Active, not recruitingThe Impact of Camostat Mesilate on COVID-19 Infection


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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