The pregnancy hormone relaxin is a player in human heart failure
Open Access
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The FASEB Journal
- Vol. 15 (12), 2187-2195
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.01-0070com
Abstract
Human congestive heart failure is characterized by complex neurohumoral activation associated with the up-regulation of vasoconstricting and salt-retaining mediators and the compensatory rise of coun...Keywords
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