The Fifteenth Midwest Conference on Endocrinology and Metabolism, held at the University of Missouri-Columbia on October 11 and 12th, 1979, hosted the most prominent active researchers in the world on the subject of the hormone relaxin. Each speaker presented an in-depth coverage of his chosen topic and area of expertise. Some of the data presented in this book are findings which have not been pub- lished in a scientific journal. The topic of this conference is especially timely in light of the fact that this is a first confer- ence devoted specifically to the hormone relaxin. Progress on...