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The recent isolation (Sherwood and O’Byrne, 1974; Frieden et al., 1980) and characterization of porcine relaxin as a two-chain polypeptide bearing a distinct structural similarity to insulin (Schwabe and McDonald, 1977; James et al., 1977) has revived interest in an earlier report (Steinetz et al., 1950) that relaxin can exert glycogenic and protein anabolic effects in ovariectomized, estrogen- treated rats. Since the relaxins used in these early experiments were of relatively low specific activity (10–150 GPU/mg), we have examined the metabolic effects of purified, electrophoretically homogenous porcine relaxin as well as NIH-relaxin.
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Frieden, E.H., Vasilenko, P., Adams, W.C. (1982). Effect of a Purified Porcine Relaxin Upon Glycogen and Protein in the Rat Uterus. In: Anderson, R.R. (eds) Relaxin. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 143. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3368-5_29
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