Sex shapes cell-type-specific transcriptional signatures of stress exposure in the mouse hypothalamus
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ABSTRACT: Stress-related psychiatric disorders and the stress system show prominent differences between men and women. These sex differences are detectable at the transcriptional level but we lack cell-type specific information. Here, using single-cell transcriptomics, we identify cell-type-specific signatures of acute restraint stress in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus - a central hub of the stress response - in male and female mice. Further, we show that a history of chronic mild stress alters these acute stress signatures in a sex-specific way. Using this dataset, we identified oligodendrocytes as a major target for sex-specific effects of stress. This dataset provides the first molecular resource for an in-depth dissection of the interplay between cell types and sex on the mechanisms of the stress response, offering the transcriptomes of thousands of individual cells.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE201032 | GEO | 2023/07/31
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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