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Arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus cells are sensitive to nutritional state in a sex dependent manner.

GSE282955 Mus musculus (mouse) Single-nucleus RNA-seq 12 samples Submitted 2025/02/24 Platform GPL34328
At a glance

Single-nucleus RNA-seq · mouse · 12 samples

What it is
Single-nucleus RNA-seqGene activity measured in individual nuclei (used when whole cells are hard to isolate, for example from frozen tissue). Read from the summary: GEO's own type field only says 'expression profiling by sequencing', so confirm it in the paper.
Organism
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
12 samples: 3 × Female, ad. Libitum fed, vs 3 × Female, 28 hours fasted, vs 3 × Male, ad. Libitum fed, vs 3 × Male, 28 hours fasted,Groups 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
Sex-specific differences in mediobasal hypothalamus in response to nutritional statesNature communications · 2026
Summary (written by the submitters)
Obesity has reached epidemic levels and obesity increases the risk for negative health outcomes including type 2 diabetes. Sex differences are evident in metabolic homeostasis with differences seen both in amount and location of adipose stores. Males store more adipose viscerally whereas females store adipose subcutaneously. Interestingly, this can be affected by the brain.
Read the full summary ↓
The arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus is a key brain region that exerts control over feeding behavior and metabolism. The cells of the arcuate are heterogeneous in their transcriptomic expression and in their functions. Here we perform single nuclei RNA-sequencing of the arcuate in females and males under varying nutritional states. We found that Agrp neurons were the most sensitive to nutritional state and this was more pronounced in females than in males. KNDy neurons were also sensitive to nutritional state and major sex differences were observed. Dopamine neurons of the arcuate had major sex differences. Ghrh neurons saw moderate nutritional regulation and sexual dimorphism. Both microglia and oligodendrocytes had moderate differences observed between nutritional states. This study represents the first major effort to characterize sex differences across nutritional states in the arcuate.
Published in
Sex-specific differences in mediobasal hypothalamus in response to nutritional states
Bean JC, Jian J, Lu TC et al. · Nature communications 2026 · PMID 41714323 · doi:10.1038/s41467-026-69239-w
This dataset
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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 GSE282955_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: Single-cell studies usually ship their counts as 10x files (matrix.mtx, barcodes.tsv, features.tsv), an .h5 file, or an .rds / .h5ad object that Seurat or Scanpy can open. Look for those among the supplementary files.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1191358 and SRA study SRP547960. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
3 × Female, ad. Libitum fed, vs 3 × Female, 28 hours fasted, vs 3 × Male, ad. Libitum fed, vs 3 × Male, 28 hours fasted,

Supports a between-group comparison across 12 samples.

How we read this: 4 replicated groups read from 12 sample titles; they account for 12 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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