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A highly sensitive homologous human relaxin ELISA

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Relaxin is a peptide hormone of the insulin family with pleiotropic effects [1]. While the physiological role of relaxin during human reproduction has been studied for many years, very recent findings indicate that due to its vasodilatory, cardioprotective, chronotropic, and central hemodynamic properties, relaxin may also have important implications on the cardiovascular system [2, 3].

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  1. Immundiagnostik GmbH, Bensheim, Germany

    Franz P. Armbruster, Ina Maier, H-J. Grön & Susanne M. Bailer

  2. Charité, Department of Cardiology, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Dschietzig & Karl Stangl

  3. Department of Physical Biochemistry, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Hartmut Echner & Wolfgang Voelter

  4. Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Theodor H. Lippert & H. Seeger

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  1. Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia

    Geoffrey W. Tregear , Ross A. Bathgate  & John D. Wade ,  & 

  2. Institute for Hormone and Fertility Research, Hamburg, Germany

    Richard Ivell

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Armbruster, F.P. et al. (2001). A highly sensitive homologous human relaxin ELISA. In: Tregear, G.W., Ivell, R., Bathgate, R.A., Wade, J.D. (eds) Relaxin 2000. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2877-5_46

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