The use of PRV-Bartha to define premotor inputs to lumbar motoneurons in the neonatal spinal cord of the mouse.
The neonatal mouse has become a model system for studying the locomotor function of the lumbar spinal cord.However, information about the synaptic connectivity within the governing neural network remains scarce.A neurotropic pseudorabies virus (PRV) Bartha has been used to map neuronal connectivity in other parts of the nervous system, due to its a