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Physiological or pathological--a role for relaxin in the cardiovascular system?
Current opinion in pharmacology - 1 Apr 2003
Samuel Chrishan S, Parry Laura J, Summers Roger J
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The omnipresent 6kDa polypeptide relaxin (RLX) is emerging as a multi-functional endocrine and paracrine factor, with a broad range of target tissues that includes the cardiovascular system. Humans and other higher primates have three RLX genes, designated H1, H2 and H3, of which H2 RLX is the ma...
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