Officer J E, Tecson N, Estes J D, Fontanilla E, Rongey R W, Gardner M B
Science. 1973 Sep 7;181(4103):945-7. doi: 10.1126/science.181.4103.945.
A neurogenic paralysis of the lower limb can be induced and serially transmitted in mice by a nontransforming type C virus strain that originated in an embryo of a wild mouse. The virus exerted a neurotropic effect on the anterior horn neurons.