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Aging and Metabolism Research Program

@AM_OMRF

The Aging and Metabolism Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (@OMRF).
Oklahoma City, OK omrf.org/programs/aging… Joined January 2018
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Check out the recent publication in Nature related to the effects of sterilization on lifespan. Our own Michael Stout contributed to this report from an international team lead by Mike Garratt (University of Otago, New Zealand).
nature Verified account @Nature Dec 16, 2025
Nature research paper: Sterilization and contraception increase lifespan across vertebrates

go.nature.com/4540KeJ
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Alzheimer's disease 🧠research from the Rice lab . They have modeled how presynaptic inhibition by the amyloid precursor protein (APP) could be a key mechanism for preventing "runaway synaptic modification." @HeatherRicePhD

Read the full findings here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Modeling presynaptic inhibition by the amyloid precursor protein demonstrates one potential... INTRODUCTION Previous simulations of Hebbian associative memory models inspired the malignant synaptic growth hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which suggests that cognitive impairments arise...