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However, efficient neuronal tracing techniques for labeling motor neurons and primary sensory afferents in the monkey spinal cord are lacking. Here, by injecting the cholera toxin B subunit into the sciatic nerve of a rhesus monkey, we successfully labeled the motor neurons and primary sensory afferents in the lumbar and sacralspinal cord. Labeled alpha motor neurons were located in lamina IX of the L6\u2013S1 segments, which innervate both flexors and extensors. The labeled primary sensory afferents were mainly myelinated A\u03b2 fibers that terminated mostly in laminae I and II of the L4\u2013L7 segments. Together with the labeled proprioceptive afferents, the primary sensory afferents formed excitatory synapses with multiple types of spinal neurons. 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