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Effects of relaxin on the cervix and the vagina in the rat

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Relaxin and progesterone are secreted by the corpora lutea throughout the second half of 23 — day rat pregnancy [1]. Estrogen secretion by developing follicles is important during this period because relaxin’s effects on the reproductive tract are estrogen dependent [1].

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  1. Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 401 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    O. David Sherwood & Shuangping Zhao

  2. College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 401 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    O. David Sherwood

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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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Sherwood, O.D., Zhao, S. (2001). Effects of relaxin on the cervix and the vagina in the rat. 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_2

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