| Literature DB >> 29526354 |
Teja Devarakonda1, Fadi N Salloum2.
Abstract
The hormone relaxin has long been recognized for its involvement in maternal adaptation during pregnancy. However, discoveries during the past two decades on the mechanism of action of relaxin, its family of receptors, and newly described roles in attenuating ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, inflammation, and arrhythmias have prompted vast interest in exploring its therapeutic potential in cardiovascular disease. These observations inspired recently concluded clinical trials in patients with acute heart failure. This review discusses our current understanding of the protective signaling pathways elicited by relaxin in the heart, and highlights important new breakthroughs about relaxin signaling that may pave the way to more carefully designed future trials.Entities:
Keywords: RXFP1; fibrosis; heart failure; myocardial infarction; relaxin
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29526354 PMCID: PMC5911207 DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.02.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Endocrinol Metab ISSN: 1043-2760 Impact factor: 12.015