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Relaxin and the Fine Structure of Proteins /

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Relaxin, perhaps more than any other hormone, has a varied history of eliciting enthusiasm, rejection, skepticism, and long lapses of neglect. Long after its discovery, it was a hormone in search of a physiological role in humans. Today, relaxin is implicated in mammary growth, development and funct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwabe, Christian
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Büllesbach, Erika E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998.
Subjects:
Life sciences.
Chemistry, Organic.
Endocrinology.
Biochemistry.
Cytology.
Relaxin > chemistry.
Relaxin > metabolism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The relaxin insulin-like motive in protein structures
  • Other mammalian and chondrichtian relaxins
  • Isolation and sequence analysis of porcine relaxin
  • The initial approach to receptor-binding site studies
  • The N-terminal region of the relaxin A chain
  • The total synthesis of human relaxin
  • Analytic of the prototype
  • The receptor-binding site of relaxin
  • Merely a glycine
  • Insulaxin, the first true Zwitterhormone
  • Retro D-relaxin
  • The relaxin-like factor
  • The relaxin receptor
  • Relaxin as a drug
  • Relaxin and genealogy.