Figure 5.

Quantitative results of the electrodiagnostic recordings from the thenar muscle depicting motor recovery over 12 weeks postsurgery. Evoked compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) were recorded to evaluate an amplitude area over time as common indicator related to motor recovery. While nerve reconstruction with autologous nerve grafts resulted in a significant increase, reconstruction with muscle‐in‐vein grafts led to no significant improvement (n = 16 paws evaluated per group at 4 and 8 weeks postsurgery; n = 8 paws evaluated at 12 weeks postsurgery). The horizontal continuous line indicates the healthy nerve reference mean value recorded presurgically from n = 16 animals. Two‐way ANOVA followed by Tukey's multiple comparison was applied to examine significant differences (*p < .05, ***p < .001 vs. 4 weeks postsurgery; ^$$$ p < .001 vs. 8 weeks postsurgery; ^### p < .001 as linked). Values are given as median ± range