| In addition, the increase in production of the hormone relaxin causes a loosening of the connective tissue around those joints and creates instability. |
| Functional roles for relaxin within human reproductive tissues have also been implicated during placentation, parturition, and lactation. |
| Because of these effects, relaxin was initially thought to serve only as a pregnancy hormone. |
| On December 23, Novartis announced a definitive agreement to acquire Corthera Inc, gaining worldwide rights to relaxin for the treatment of acute heart failure. |
| Use of relaxin for the preparation of a medicament for increasing vasodilation for treating pulmonary hypertension. |
| It mimics a human hormone known as relaxin. |
