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Relaxin

"Relaxin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A water-soluble polypeptide (molecular weight approximately 8,000) extractable from the corpus luteum of pregnancy. It produces relaxation of the pubic symphysis and dilation of the uterine cervix in certain animal species. Its role in the human pregnant female is uncertain. (Dorland, 28th ed)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Relaxin" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Relaxin" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2003 and 2013 and 2014 and 2016 and 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.