Table 4.

Number of fibers in normal UN and McN and the reconnected nerve following EEN

	Normal	2 months	3 months	4 months
Control UN	885 ± 293
Control McN	576 ± 63
Reconnected nerve, proximal to neurorrhaphy		1251 ± 155	1307 ± 451	1108 ± 60
Reconnected nerve, distal to neurorrhaphy		1239 ± 123*	1115 ± 383	891 ± 168

Total number of myelinated nerve fibers was counted from toluidine blue-stained, plastic-embedded, semithin cross-sections of the nerve segment specified.

Values are means ± SD.

^*P < 0.05 between the marked and that of the normal McN (one-way anova followed by Bonferroni test). Please see Table 1 for the numbers of animals examined in each group.