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Wiley, British Journal of Pharmacology, 5(137), p. 710-718, 2002

DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0704922

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Inotropic responses to human gene 2 (B29) relaxin in a rat model of myocardial infarction (MI): effect of pertussis toxin

Journal article published in 2002 by Andrew R. Kompa ORCID, Chrishan S. Samuel, Roger J. Summers ORCID
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Abstract

Relaxin produces powerful inotropic and chronotropic responses in isolated atria. The effect of relaxin has been examined in a rat model of cardiac failure, induced by myocardial infarction (MI).Maximum inotropic responses to isoprenaline (sham 5.4±0.3 mN; MI 2.6±0.3 mN; P