SynthesisJournal of sleep research2026
A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Rodent Models.
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- A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Rodent Models.Journal of sleep research · 2026Pooled it
- A Meta-Analysis of the Converging Effects of Different Classes of Antipsychotics on the Frontal Cortex Transcriptome in Laboratory Rodents and Non-Human Primates.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Converging Effects of Different Categories of Antidepressants on the Brain: A Systematic Meta-Analysis of Public Transcriptional Profiling Data from the Hippocampus and Cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Chronic Stress on the Prefrontal Transcriptome in Animal Models and Convergence with Existing Human Data.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Sleep deprivation (SD) causes large disturbances in mood and cognition. The molecular basis for these effects can be explored using transcriptional profiling to quantify brain gene expression. In this report, we used a meta-analysis of public transcriptional profiling data to discover SD effects on gene expression that are consistent across studies and paradigms. To conduct the meta-analysis, we used pre-specified search terms related to rodent SD paradigms to identify relevant studies within Gemma, a database containing > 19,000 re-analysed microarray and RNA-Seq datasets. Eight studies met our systematic inclusion/exclusion criteria. These studies characterised the effect of 18 SD interventions on gene expression in the mouse cerebral cortex (collective n = 293). For each gene with sufficient data (n = 16,290), we fit a random effects meta-analysis model to the SD effect sizes (log(2) fold changes). Our meta-analysis revealed 182 differentially expressed genes in response to SD (false discovery rate: FDR < 0.05), most of which (115/182) showed similar effects (FDR < 0.05) in an independent large dataset (GSE114845: n = 86 RNA-Seq samples from n = 222 mice). Gene-set enrichment analysis revealed down-regulation in pathways related to stress response (e.g., glucocorticoid receptor Nr3c1), vasculature, growth and development, and upregulation related to stress, inflammation, and neuropeptide signalling. Exploratory analyses suggested that recovery sleep (included in six contrasts: range: 1-18 h) could reverse the impact of SD on gene expression. Our meta-analysis provides a useful reference database illustrating the diverse molecular impact of SD on the rodent cerebral cortex.
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