The skin over the vertebral column was incised, and the 8th thoracic vertebra was carefully exposed. A laminectomy was performed, followed by a dorsal hemisection of the spinal cord with fine iridectomy scissors as previously described (Loy et al, 2018 (link); Bradley et al, 2019 (link)). This lesion bilaterally transects the main dorsal and minor dorsolateral corticospinal tract (CST), leaving the ventral white matter intact.
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