Table 4.
Timing for recovery of evocable CMAPs
| Muscle | Nerve guide | 60 days | 90 days | 120 days | 150 days | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals/group | [%] | Animals/group | [%] | Animals/group | [%] | Animals/group | [%] | ||
| Tibialis anterior | hCNG-II | 1/10 | 10* | 4/10 | 40 | 5/10 | 50 | 5/10 | 50 |
| CFeCNG-II | 0/7 | 0 | 1/7 | 14 | 3/7 | 43 | 5/7 | 71* | |
| Plantar interosseus | hCNG-II | 0/10 | 0 | 0/10 | 0 | 1/10 | 10* | 1/10 | 10* |
| CFeCNG-II | 0/7 | 0 | 0/7 | 0 | 0/7 | 0 | 0/7 | 0 | |
The table gives a timeline of functional motor recovery detected as evocable CMAPs recorded from the tibialis anterior or plantar muscles upon transcutaneous stimulation of the reconstructed sciatic nerve. * Indicates a significant difference (p < 0.05) between hCNG-II and CFeCNG-II at the same time point and for the same muscle as determined in the Chi square test