A major challenge in neuroscience is to identify the neural circuits that underlie specific behaviours and determine how they are perturbed in psychiatric disorders.
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Human relaxin-3 (H3 relaxin), the most recently discovered member of the relaxin superfamily that was discovered by our laboratory in 2002, has emerged as a key brain neuropeptide.
Learn MoreWe have previously shown that human gene-2 (H2) relaxin (the major stored and circulating form of human relaxin, which is bioactive in rodents) is both an endogenous inhibitor of collagen deposition and a rapidly-acting but safe therapy for the progressive fibrosis (scar tissue) that occurs during aberrant tissue repair and end-stage organ disease.
Learn MoreRoss Bathgate, Roy Kong, Natalie Witteveen, Daniel Scott, Tania Ferraro, Sharon Layfield in collaboration with Emma Petrie, Patrick Shilling and Paul Gooley, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne
Gabrielle Callander, Despina Ganella, Andrew Gundlach and Ross Bathgate in collaboration with Professor Walter Thomas, University of Queensland
Ross Bathgate and Sharon Layfield in collaboration with Michelle Halls, Martina Kocan and Roger Summers, Monash University
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