Effect of 'Love Hormone' on Starfish (VIDEO)

Queen Mary University of London

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Injection of an oxytocin-type hormone (asterotocin) in a starfish triggers the stomach to be everted out of its mouth, whereas injection of water (H20) has no effect.

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Maurice Elphick

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