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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS
Volume 127, Issue 1, Pages 43-47Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(03)00098-0
Keywords
nerve repair; motor function recovery; grasping test; median nerve; end-to-side neurorrhaphy; rat
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The quantitative assessment of motor function is an important requirement for studies on peripheral nerve injury and repair. So far, most studies on peripheral nerves have been performed on the sciatic nerve model using walking track analysis for assessing motor function. Alternatively, the employment of the median nerve model, which-allows motor function evaluation by means of a simple behavioural test named grasping test (GT), have been more recently proposed. In this paper, the efficacy of the GT for the quantitative assessment of motor function recovery is re-appraised and a modified device for its carrying out is described. Finally, the rationale for the employment of the median nerve model as an alternative to the sciatic nerve model is critically discussed. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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