Expression data for C. elegans blunt force trauma

C. elegans exhibit an age-dependent mechanical stress response to blunt force injury. Stress responses are often defined in part by an elicited cellular transcriptional response. We find in C. elegans that mechanical stress by blunt trauma induces a distinct and age-dependent transcriptional program. Age-synchronized C. elegans were given paralytic injury or sham (buffer incubation) and collected for RNA processing 1 hour after. We aimed to determine how mechanical injury affects gene transcription and further to what extent the process is age-dependent.