Ventral Root
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The Preparation of Oblique Spinal Cord Slices for Ventral Root Stimulation
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2016
We show how to prepare oblique slices of the spinal cord in young mice. This preparation allows for the stimulation of the ventral roots.
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Co-culturing of Ventral Hippocampal and Nucleus Accumbens
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2025
This video demonstrates the process of preparing ventral hippocampal and nucleus accumbens tissues from mouse brains for co-culture. Neurons extend projections to form synaptic connections between the ventral hippocampal and nucleus accumbens tissues. This method allows studying neuronal interactions between these two brain regions, offering insights into cognition, behavior, and neurological disorders.
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In ovo Expression of MicroRNA in Ventral Chick Midbrain
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2013
Ectopic expression is one technique to elucidate the microRNAs role in brain development. However, targeting specific areas using in ovo electroporation is challenging. Here, we show an efficient way to selectively electroporate ventral and dorsal midbrain regions.
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Dorsal Root Ganglion Injection and Dorsal Root Crush Injury as a Model for Sensory Axon Regeneration
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2017
This protocol presents the use of a dorsal root ganglion (DRG) injection with a viral vector and a concurrent dorsal root crush injury in an adult rat as a model to study sensory axon regeneration. This model is suitable for investigating the use of gene therapy to promote sensory axon regeneration.
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Use of a Rat Model to Study Ventral Abdominal Hernia Repair
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2017
This manuscript describes methods associated with creation and repair of a ventral abdominal wall defect (hernia). This model can be used to study repair strategies such as those that use implanted materials. In this manuscript, repair of the experimental hernia with porcine small intestinal submucosa is presented as an example.
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The destination of the axon reflects the motor system involved. Most ventral-root output consists of somatic commands from motor neurons in the ventral horn to skeletal muscle, whereas particular spinal levels also carry autonomic signals directed toward internal organs. This distinction helps relate a ventral-root pathway to movement, physiological control, or both.
Before entering the spinal nerve, outgoing motor fibers leave the spinal cord through the ventral root, while sensory fibers approach through the dorsal root. Their subsequent union creates a nerve containing both functional directions. This arrangement allows one spinal nerve to carry motor commands outward and sensory information inward without eliminating the roots’ distinct origins.
The comparison separates outgoing motor transmission from incoming sensory transmission. A ventral-root pathway can therefore be followed from motor neurons in the ventral horn toward the body, while the dorsal root represents the sensory side of the circuit. This organization is especially useful for interpreting reflex arcs and examining whether a problem involves motor output or sensory input.
A ventral root cannot be interpreted only as a pathway for voluntary movement. At specific spinal levels, it also carries autonomic signals that influence internal organs. Including this component broadens analysis from skeletal-muscle control to physiological regulation, making spinal-level organization relevant to both motor behavior and non-somatic functions.
In a reflex arc, the ventral root represents the outgoing motor portion of the circuit. Motor neurons in the ventral horn send their axons through this route toward the body, while sensory fibers enter through the dorsal root. Mapping these two directions helps researchers relate spinal connectivity to the production of an appropriate motor response.
Because the ventral root carries motor output from the spinal cord, its organization provides a framework for examining disruptions in motor pathways. Researchers can consider whether an injury or lesion affects the route from ventral-horn motor neurons to the body, then relate that interruption to altered motor function without confusing it with a primarily sensory pathway.
Movement disorders can be examined in relation to the pathway that carries commands from spinal motor neurons toward skeletal muscle. Studying the ventral root helps place impaired motor function within the larger spinal organization, alongside the ventral horn, spinal nerve, and target tissues. This context supports analysis of where motor communication may be disrupted.