Welcome to the Sound of Science! I am Prof. Eitan Okun and in this video, I will discuss whether the COVID19 vaccine affects fertility
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Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon’s original Petition to the EMA:
Explanation of Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon’s original Petition to the EMA:
Further reading on debunking the claims for effects of the COVID19 vaccine on fertility:
References on the expression pattern of Syncitin 1:
• “Syncytin is captive retroviral envelope protein involved in human placental morphogenesis.”
Sha M., Lee X., Li X.-P., Veldman G.M., Finnerty H., Racie L., LaVallie E., Tang X.-Y., Edouard P., Howes S., Keith J.C. Jr., McCoy J.M.
Nature 403:785-789(2000) [PubMed]
• “An envelope glycoprotein of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-W is expressed in the human placenta and fuses cells expressing the type D mammalian retrovirus receptor.”
Blond J.-L., Lavillette D., Cheynet V., Bouton O., Oriol G., Chapel-Fernandes S., Mandrand B., Mallet F., Cosset F.-L.
J. Virol. 74:3321-3329(2000) [PubMed]
• “Survey of human genes of retroviral origin: identification and transcriptome of the genes with coding capacity for complete envelope proteins.”
de Parseval N., Lazar V., Casella J.-F., Benit L., Heidmann T.
J. Virol. 77:10414-10422(2003) [PubMed]
• “Human endogenous retrovirus glycoprotein-mediated induction of redox reactants causes oligodendrocyte death and demyelination.”
Antony J.M., Van Marle G., Opii W., Butterfield D.A., Mallet F., Yong V.W., Wallace J.L., Deacon R.M., Warren K., Power C.
Nat. Neurosci. 7:1088-1095(2004) [PubMed] [Europe PMC] [Abstract]
Reference for the developmental stage expression of Syncitin 1:
Temporal regulation of the expression of syncytin (HERV-W), maternally imprinted PEG10, and SGCE in human placenta.”
Smallwood A., Papageorghiou A., Nicolaides K., Alley M.K.R., Jim A., Nargund G., Ojha K., Campbell S., Banerjee S.
Biol. Reprod. 69:286-293(2003) [PubMed]
Research paper by the group that found the function of Syncitin 1:
Research paper on the structure of Syncitin 1:
The COVID19 mRNA vaccine sequence from Pfizer:
Visualizing the action of fusion proteins:
SARS-CoV-2’s Spike protein structure from the PDB database:
Syncitin 1 protein structure from the PDB database:
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