Figures & data
Figure 1. Intraoperative photograph of the right leg of a rat from group III showing the sural nerve (black arrow) split into 4 fascicles (white arrows) and embedded into 4 arbitrarily divided quadrants of the lateral head of the gastrocnemius muscle (GM).
![Figure 1. Intraoperative photograph of the right leg of a rat from group III showing the sural nerve (black arrow) split into 4 fascicles (white arrows) and embedded into 4 arbitrarily divided quadrants of the lateral head of the gastrocnemius muscle (GM).](/cms/asset/a8e7cb74-09db-4744-9d3f-3589ea87b442/iort_a_11327416_f0001_b.jpg)
Figure 2. Fluorescence photomicrographs of sections from gastrocnemius muscles immunohistochemically stained for neuronal markers and labeled with fluorochrome Cy3. CGRP-positive nerve fibers in control (A) and experimental (B) sides in group I; PGP 9.5-positive nerve fibers in experimental side in group II (C), and SP-positive nerve fibers in experimental side in group III (D). Arrows indicate nerve fibers. Bar represents 50 μn.
![Figure 2. Fluorescence photomicrographs of sections from gastrocnemius muscles immunohistochemically stained for neuronal markers and labeled with fluorochrome Cy3. CGRP-positive nerve fibers in control (A) and experimental (B) sides in group I; PGP 9.5-positive nerve fibers in experimental side in group II (C), and SP-positive nerve fibers in experimental side in group III (D). Arrows indicate nerve fibers. Bar represents 50 μn.](/cms/asset/a16b4381-409f-41e1-9643-767c0e4c884c/iort_a_11327416_f0002_b.jpg)
Semiquantitative image analysis of digital microscopic images. Numbers indicate median number of positively stained nerve fibers per high-power (20×) field (95% confidence interval)