The source and secretion of immunoactive relaxin in rat milk

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 562-565

  Steinetz, Bernard G ^a   Horton, Lori ^a   Lasano, Sally ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactating rats; Mammary glands; Milk borne relaxin (or lactocrine relaxin); Neutralizing antibody

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY MCA1; RELAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MILK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; MILK; NONHUMAN; RAT; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SECRETION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UDDER;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MILK; MILK PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RELAXIN;

EID: 66149151063     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0811-BC-341     Document Type: Article

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