Abstract
Highly purified rat relaxin has been radioiodinated to specific activities of approximately 100 micro Ci/microgram with the Bolton and Hunter reagent [N-succinimidyl 3-(4-hydroxy-5-[125I]iodophenyl) propionate]. A rabbit antirat relaxin serum, applicable in a final dilution of 1:100,000, was developed in a rabbit using unconjugated highly purified rat relaxin. A specific and precise double antibody RIA for rat relaxin sufficiently sensitive to routinely measure from 32--2000 pg rat relaxin was developed. Using this RIA, relaxin immunoactivity levels in extracts of pregnant rat ovaries were found to rise from 0.8 microgram/geq ovarian fresh tissue on day 8 of pregnancy to 723 microgram/geq ovarian fresh tissue on day 20 of pregnancy and then to drop precipitously to 6 microgram/geq ovarian fresh tissue on day 1 of lactation. Consistent with the occurrence and relative levels of relaxin in the ovarian extracts, levels of relaxin in pregnant rat serum were less than 2 ng/ml on day 10 of pregnancy, approximately 150 ng/ml on days 20 and 22 of pregnancy, and 12 ng/ml on day 2 of lactation.
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