The sensory reinnervation of muscles following immediate and delayed nerve repair in the cat.
An experiment has been performed on adult cats to investigate the sensory reinnervation of muscle spindles and tendon organs in peroneus brevis following immediate and delayed repair of the divided muscle nerve. The results demonstrate that delaying nerve repair for up to 6 weeks does not give rise to any significant detrimental effect on such reinnervation.
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Durham.
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Scott
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D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009470:Muscle Spindles / Q000166:cytology; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D009416:Nerve Regeneration / Q000502:physiology; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*; D010543:Peroneal Nerve / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors