Table 2.

Morphometric analyses of the sciatic regenerated nerves for each of the experimental group

	Sham			Treatment (alpha-lipoic acid)			Control
Weeks	4	8	12	4	8	12	4	8	12
N	8024±404	8379 ± 446	8124 ± 385	2511 ± 183	2733±231	3255± 189	1378 ± 176†	2673 ± 215	3024 ± 198
D	12.01±0.01	11.93±0.17	12.06±0.23	7.34± 0.49	9.88± 0.33	10.54± 0.42	2.83 ± 0.18†	4.51± 0.24†	4.86 ± 0.19†
d	7.03 ± 0.02	6.97 ± 0.39	7.06 ± 0.46	3.44 ± 0.39	5.37± 0.27	6.22 ± 0.18	2.12 ± 0.22†	3.74± 0.23†	3.77±0.21†
T	2.56 ± 0.01	2.48 ± 0.02	2.53 ± 0.01	2.14± 0.32	2.21 ± 0.26	2.29 ± 0.29	0.41± 0.02†	0.43 ± 0.03†	0.63 ± 0.03†

N: number of fibers, D: diameter of fibers (µm), d: diameter of axon (µm), T: thickness of myelin sheath (µm).

^†results were significantly different at P-value <0.05