JoVE Neuroscience
Marc Bettscheider, Arleta Kuczynska, Osborne Almeida, Dietmar Spengler
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
A streamlined workflow to study DNA methylation and gene expression changes upon early-life stress is shown. Starting from maternal separation of newborn mice and isolation of discrete brain tissues, we represent a protocol to simultaneously isolate DNA and RNA from brain tissue punches for subsequent bisulfite sequencing and RT-PCR analysis.