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Targeting the Corticospinal Tract in Neonatal Rats with a Double-Viral Vector using Combined Brain and Spine Surgery
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This protocol demonstrates a novel method for applying gene therapies to subpopulations of cells in neonatal rats at postnatal ages 5-10 days by injecting an anterograde chemogenetic modifier into the somatomotor cortex and a retrogradely transportable Cre recombinase into the cervical spinal cord.
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Smit, R. D., Campion III, T. J., Stingel, R. L., Shah, P. H., Chen, J., Smith, G. M. Targeting the Corticospinal Tract in Neonatal Rats with a Double-Viral Vector using Combined Brain and Spine Surgery. J. Vis. Exp. (172), e62698, doi:10.3791/62698 (2021).
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