Word: releasin
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This week Warner-Chilcott announced that all that painstaking effort has produced a new medicine to forestall premature birth. The firm released to medical centers and drug wholesalers a hormone derivative called Releasin, which has the properties of relaxin. In a human, the drug does not work as drastically as in gophers, but it has the effect of "softening" tissues in the birth canal. It does not simply make delivery easier-though it does that too. Its chief virtue is to halt premature labor so that a fetus can be carried to term, or nearly...
...quantities. But for some reason that researchers (including Dr. Hisaw, now at Harvard) have not fathomed, the ovaries of the pregnant sow are the best source. Fortunately some sows are pregnant when slaughtered,* and from 110,000 lbs. of sow ovaries a year the laboratories extract 100 ounces of Releasin. This is enough for seven injections for each of 18,000 patients-fewer than one in ten of the U.S. women who annually go into premature labor after the sixth month, when the fetus has a chance of survival. Cost of a seven-shot course: $150 to $175, depending...
...raisers commonly put a boar in with a herd of fattening sows; otherwise, on coming into heat, they would rush around and wear off a lot of market-value fat. The boar pacifies them and, in the bargain, creates the main source of Releasin...
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