Andrew Butler

Company: Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Job title: Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Seminars:

Adropin: a circadian neuropeptide and potentially modifiable risk indicator of aging-related cognitive decline 1:30 pm

Identified a small, secreted peptide highly expressed in the human nervous system. Expression profiling indicates a circadian pattern and positive relationships with gene networks involved in mitochondrial and synaptic functions Expression in the brain declines with aging; in humans low circulating levels predict increased risk of cognitive decline in community-dwelling adults aged >70 years Preclinical…Read more

day: Conference Day Two