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Science 25 January 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5555, pp. 637 - 638
DOI: 10.1126/science.1069234
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Perspectives

ENDOCRINOLOGY:
This Hormone Has Been Relaxin' Too Long!

Richard Ivell

The hormone relaxin is known to be important in pregnancy but its receptor has long remained elusive. In a Perspective, Ivell discusses the identification of receptors for relaxin and its close relative relaxin-like factor (Hsu et al.), and the finding that relaxin is far more than just a reproductive hormone.

The author is at the Institute for Hormone and Fertility Research, University of Hamburg, Grandweg 64, 22529 Hamburg, Germany. E-mail: ivell{at}ihf.de

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