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It is time to interrupt the main scenario now for an extensive description of the procedures required to demonstrate the purity of synthetic human relaxin. The physiologists should particularly appreciate a rigorous approach to this portion of the research for if there are questions about the purity or authenticity of a hormone, enzyme, factor or whatever, unequivocal interpretation of their measurements in whole animals would be even more difficult. Relaxin obliges to provide an example of such an occurrence which casts a shadow over many years of painstaking measurements in whole animals. This chapter is set aside for important technical know-how that is required to ascertain authenticity and purity of the product of a synthesis. Students of this discipline might think of it as a protein chemists’ bootcamp, designed to make him exert a great deal of effort to destroy his illusions about a “pure” product.
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Schwabe, C., Büllesbach, E.E. (1998). Analytic of the Prototype. In: Relaxin and the Fine Structure of Proteins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12909-8_9
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