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Anterior cingulate cortex mediates the comorbidity between colorectal cancer and depression-like behaviors

GSE281840 Mus musculus (mouse) RNA-seq (gene expression) 16 samples Submitted 2024/11/20 Platform GPL24247
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RNA-seq (gene expression) · mouse · 16 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
16 samples: 7 × Be vs 5 × BC vs 4 × NCGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Anterior cingulate cortex mediates the comorbidity between colorectal cancer and depression-like behaviorsCommunications biology · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
In this study, we established mice with orthotopic colorectal cancer (CRC mice) and observed depression-like behaviors in the CRC mice. Through whole-brain c-FOS mapping, functional connectivity analysis, gut-brain inverse mapping, and correlation analysis, combined with chemogenetic manipulation, we identified the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as a key hub in the depression-related brain network.
Read the full summary ↓
we performed whole transcriptome sequencing of key neural nuclei to identify molecular changes associated with CRC-depression comorbidity. Furthermore, chemogenetic modulation of neuronal excitability not only alleviated depression-like behavior but also reduced CRC progression in these mice. Importantly, our findings suggest that targeting the ACC, in addition to conventional colorectal cancer therapies, could offer therapeutic and quality-of-life benefits for patients with both CRC and depression.
Published in
Anterior cingulate cortex mediates the comorbidity between colorectal cancer and depression-like behaviors
Huang M, He S, Wang Y et al. · Communications biology 2025 · PMID 40866718 · doi:10.1038/s42003-025-08719-z
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE281840_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1185799 and SRA study SRP545193. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
7 × Be vs 5 × BC vs 4 × NC

Supports a between-group comparison across 16 samples.

How we read this: 3 replicated groups read from 16 sample titles; they account for 16 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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