Assertion: relaxin | /r/CapableOf | contribute to vascularization
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text: Pregnancy is characterized by dense vasculogenesis and angiogenesis in the placenta.4 Segal and colleagues have shown that relaxin may contribute to vascularization by mobilizing, activating, and enhancing homing of CD34+ bone marrow–derived endothelial cells (BMDECs) to sites of neoangiogenesis, thus demonstrating a novel function for relaxin during pregnancy and in vascular homeostasis (see figure).