Subject area	Medicine and Dentistry
More specific subject area	Reconstruction and regeneration of the facial nerves
Method name	Compound muscle action potential recordings via reconstructed or regenerated facial nerves
Name and reference of original method	Reconstruction or regeneration of the facial nerves of rats.
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Resource availability	CMAPMethods (https://doi.org/10.17632/9g5n35fd3f.1)
	CMAPAnalysis (https://github.com/yuichi-takeuchi/CMAPAnalysis)
	CMAPanalysisMATLAB (https://github.com/hironobu-osaki/CMAPanalysisMATLAB)
	RetrogradeMotorNeuronLabeling (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5445199)