Thomas C. Mettenleiter

TL;DR: The anatomical basis of this recovery was investigated and it was found that after incomplete spinal cord injury in rats, transected hindlimb corticospinal tract axons sprouted into the cervical gray matter to contact short and long propriospinal neurons (PSNs).

TL;DR: By using a double-virus transneuronal labeling technique, the existence of a set of central autonomic neurons in the hypothalamus and brainstem was demonstrated, which likely function in circumstances where parallel sympathetic processing occurs, such as in the fight-or-flight response.

TL;DR: In 2011, an unidentified disease in cattle was reported in Germany and the Netherlands and metagenomic analysis identified a novel orthobunyavirus, which subsequently was isolated from blood of affected animals.

TL;DR: Pigs and chickens could not be infected intranasally by SARS-CoV-2, whereas fruit bats showed characteristics of a reservoir host, and virus replication in ferrets resembled a subclinical human infection with efficient spread.

TL;DR: In this article, a rat was first sympathetically denervated and then injected with the retrograde transneuronal tracer pseudorabies virus (PRV), and the resulting labeling of PRV in the vagal motor nuclei of the brain stem reveals that adipose tissue receives vagal input.