Relaxin family peptides and their receptors

RAD Bathgate, ML Halls… - Physiological …, 2013‏ - journals.physiology.org
There are seven relaxin family peptides that are all structurally related to insulin. Relaxin has
many roles in female and male reproduction, as a neuropeptide in the central nervous …

Oxidative stress and renal fibrosis: recent insights for the development of novel therapeutic strategies

W Lv, GW Booz, F Fan, Y Wang, RJ Roman - Frontiers in physiology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant worldwide healthcare problem. Regardless of
the initial injury, renal fibrosis is the common final pathway leading to end stage renal …

Targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome to treat cardiovascular fibrosis

AA Pinar, TE Scott, BM Huuskes, FET Caceres… - Pharmacology & …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Cardiovascular fibrosis refers to the scar tissue that develops in the injured heart and blood
vessels from an aberrant wound healing response to organ injury or insult. Established …

Anti‐fibrotic actions of relaxin

CS Samuel, SG Royce, TD Hewitson… - British journal of …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fibrosis refers to the hardening or scarring of tissues that usually results from aberrant
wound healing in response to organ injury, and its manifestations in various organs have …

Relaxin prevents cardiac fibroblast-myofibroblast transition via notch-1-mediated inhibition of TGF-β/Smad3 signaling

C Sassoli, F Chellini, A Pini, A Tani, S Nistri, D Nosi… - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
The hormone relaxin (RLX) is produced by the heart and has beneficial actions on the
cardiovascular system. We previously demonstrated that RLX stimulates mouse neonatal …

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. XCV. Recent advances in the understanding of the pharmacology and biological roles of relaxin family …

ML Halls, RAD Bathgate, SW Sutton… - Pharmacological …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Relaxin, insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3), relaxin-3, and INSL5 are the cognate
ligands for the relaxin family peptide (RXFP) receptors 1–4, respectively. RXFP1 activates …

[HTML][HTML] The involvement of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling cascade in fibrosis progression and its therapeutic targeting by relaxin

DVN Somanader, P Zhao, RE Widdop… - Biochemical …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Organ scarring, referred to as fibrosis, results from a failed wound-healing response to
chronic tissue injury and is characterised by the aberrant accumulation of various …

Relaxin signals through a RXFP1-pERK-nNOS-NO-cGMP-dependent pathway to up-regulate matrix metalloproteinases: the additional involvement of iNOS

BSM Chow, EGY Chew, C Zhao, RAD Bathgate… - 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
The hormone, relaxin, inhibits aberrant myofibroblast differentiation and collagen deposition
by disrupting the TGF-β1/Smad2 axis, via its cognate receptor, Relaxin Family Peptide …

The actions of relaxin on the human cardiovascular system

M Sarwar, XJ Du, TB Dschietzig… - British Journal of …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
The insulin‐like peptide relaxin, originally identified as a hormone of pregnancy, is now
known to exert a range of pleiotropic effects including vasodilatory, anti‐fibrotic, angiogenic …

A single-chain derivative of the relaxin hormone is a functionally selective agonist of the G protein-coupled receptor, RXFP1

MA Hossain, M Kocan, ST Yao, SG Royce, VB Nair… - Chemical …, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Human gene-2 relaxin (H2 relaxin) is a pleiotropic hormone with powerful vasodilatory and
anti-fibrotic properties which has led to its clinical evaluation and provisional FDA approval …