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Relaxin was measured in cervico-vaginal secretion of non-pregnant women of reproductive age using the heterologous radioimmunoassay for porcine relaxin. It was detected in about three-quarters of the samples collected. The mean value of the 529 samplers tested was 599 pg/ml. There was a slight trend to higher relaxin values during the second week of the menstrual cycle.
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Fuchs, U., Seeger, H., Voelter, W. et al. Immunoreactive relaxin in human cervico-vaginal secretion. Arch Gynecol Obstet 243, 37–39 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00931549
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00931549