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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Neurol. 2013 Aug 8;249:10.1016/j.expneurol.2013.07.019. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2013.07.019

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The right femoral nerve of the rat as seen through the ilio-inguinal approach. Femoral nerve grafts used in these experiments extended from just distal to the iliacus innervation to the distal-most unbranched portions of the femoral motor and sensory tributaries, the portion of the nerve shaded grey. The small pectineus branch was tied off at its origin. Sensory and motor axons intermingle within the nerve at the site of proximal transection. Distally, motor axons segregate into the quadriceps muscle branch, and are not normally found in the cutaneous branch.