Tamada Hiromichi, Kawate Noritoshi, Kawata Naoko, Inaba Toshio, Kida Kayoko, Hatoya Shingo, Akune Atsushi, Nakama Kazuhiro, Kohsaka Tetsuya, Sawada Tsutomu
Department of Advanced Pathobiology, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Izumisano, Osaka, Japan.
J Vet Med Sci. 2010 Oct;72(10):1383-6. doi: 10.1292/jvms.09-0485. Epub 2010 May 21.
In the pregnant bitch, the placenta is a major source of circulating relaxin, but its local expression in the reproductive organs is not clear. This study demonstrated expression of relaxin mRNA in the corpus luteum, uterus, uterine cervix as well as placenta in the pregnant and nonpregnant bitch by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).