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HUMANS AND STARFISH SHARE ANCIENT HUNGER SWITCH
British scientists just traced our appetite-controlling hormone, bombesin, back 500 million years—to starfish.
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London discovered that this neurohormone, known for signaling fullness in humans, also exists in starfish, where it triggers stomach retraction and delays feeding.
The starfish version, ArBN, was synthesized and shown to cause these behaviors when injected.
Bombesin was first isolated from a toad in 1971 and is now a focus in anti-obesity drug development.
The study not only illuminates a shared evolutionary past but could offer solutions for shellfish farming disrupted by invasive starfish.
Source: SciTech Daily
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HUMANS AND STARFISH SHARE ANCIENT HUNGER SWITCH
British scientists just traced our appetite-controlling hormone, bombesin, back 500 million years—to starfish.
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London discovered that this neurohormone, known for signaling fullness in humans, also exists in starfish, where it triggers stomach retraction and delays feeding.
The starfish version, ArBN, was synthesized and shown to cause these behaviors when injected.
Bombesin was first isolated from a toad in 1971 and is now a focus in anti-obesity drug development.
The study not only illuminates a shared evolutionary past but could offer solutions for shellfish farming disrupted by invasive starfish.
Source: SciTech Daily
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