This study was performed to determine the role of adrenal-derived stress hormones in mediating brain effects after ozone exposure. Sham and adrenalectomized rats were exposed to air or ozone for 4 hours and within 2 hours after exposure brain regions, hypothalamus and brainstem were isolated and circulating pituitary hormones were analyzed. Global gene expression was analysed in these two brain regions using Illumina mRNA sequencing platform and data were analyzed using various bioinformatics platforms. The resulting data are included in this manuscript. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Henriquez, A., J. House, S. Snow, C. Miller, M. Schladweiler, A. Astriab Fisher, H. Ren, M. Valdez, P. Kodavanti, and U. Kodavanti. Ozone-induced dysregulation of neuroendocrine axes requires adrenal-derived stress hormones. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES. Society of Toxicology, RESTON, VA, 172(1): 38-50, (2019).

This data set is an excel file pertaining to the study that examined ozone-induced systemic and pulmonary effects in rats that underwent SHAM surgery (control), adrenal demedullation or total bilateral adrenalectomy. Different pages of the spreadsheet shows individual animal data for markers of lung injury and inflammation, body weights, whole body plethysmography measurements, levels of circulating hormones and lipids, and circulating white blood cell count as well as platelet count. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Miller, D., S. Snow, M. Schladweiler , J. Richards , A. Ghio , A. Ledbetter , and U. Kodavanti. Acute Ozone-Induced Pulmonary and Systemic Metabolic Effects are Diminished in Adrenalectomized Rats#. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES. Society of Toxicology, 150(2): 312-22, (2016).