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Published in final edited form as: J Neurotrauma. 2006 Jul;23(7):1125–1136. doi: 10.1089/neu.2006.23.1125

TABLE 2.

Results of Histological Analyses Examining Nerve Regrowth

Histological analyses	Experimental (ventral root repair) group		Root-intact controls
No. of dogs with fluorogold- labeled spinal neuronal cell bodies	n = 9, bilaterally n = 1, right side only		n = 4, bilaterally
Diameter fluorogold- labeled spinal neuronal cell bodies	22.31 ± 8.96 (mean ± SD; n = 6 examined)		17.82 ± 6.10 (mean ± SD; n = 3 examined)
No. of dogs with DiI-labeled spinal neuronal cell bodies^b	4/4 dogs, bilaterally		2/2 dogs, bilaterally
Number of fluorogold- labeled axons in ventral roots	Distal to repair site, 20.43 ± 0.98 (mean ± SD)	Proximal to repair, 6.83 ± 2.49^a (mean ± SD)	Intact ventral root, 16.11 ± 4.73 (mean ± SD)

p ≤ 0.05.

DiI was inserted into spinal nerves distal to ventral root repair site.