Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of the pituitary gland of male rats exposed to stress against unexposed controls. Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of the pituitary gland of male rats exposed to stress against unexposed controls

Environmental stressors such as repeated social defeat may trigger powerful activation of sub-conscious parts of the brain. We examine the consequences of such stress in male rats on the pituitary gland. We prepared 10 Sprague Dawley rats. 5 of them were exposed to stress induced by the resident-intruder paradigm while the other 5 were controls.After dislocation of the neck under isoflurane anaesthesia, the pituitary gland was harvested. To depict an initial epigenetic pituitary stress response, total DNA was isolated from the tissues and used for bisulfite DNA sequencing. This data presented here is a subset of the samples involved in E-MTAB-11285 RNA-seq project.