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ArticleBrain and behavior2021

Revitalizing the common peroneal function index for assessing functional recovery following nerve injury.

Calder Fontaine, Eric A Yeager, Michael Sledziona, Amanda K Jones, Jonathan Cheetham

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Article in Brain and behavior, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Calder FontaineDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Eric A YeagerDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4761-6721
Michael SledzionaDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Amanda K JonesDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Jonathan CheethamDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9309-5261
Cornell University · US

Funding

Manipulating Macrophage Phenotype to Accelerate Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve RepairR01DC017171 · NIDCD · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI CHEETHAM, JONATHAN · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

aimsPeripheral nerve injury is common with poor functional recovery and consequent high personal and societal costs. Sciatic nerve transection and assessment of recovery using sciatic functional index (SFI) are widely used. SFI is biologically limited as axonal misdirection of axons supplying flexors and extensors in the hindlimb, after nerve injury can lead to synkinetic innervation and function which does not correspond to the degree of axonal regeneration.

methodsWe reevaluated the use of traditional metrics such as print length (PL), toe spread (TS), and intermediate toe spread (ITS) as well as hock angle at mid-swing as approaches for determining recovery. We used two alternative approaches in discrete cohorts of rats following common peroneal crush injury, transection with repair and critical gap, using transection with ligation as a negative control. We compared walking track analysis (print) with digital capture and kinematics.

resultsPL, TS, and ITS varied as expected after injury. The traditional functional index for common peroneal injury using inked prints failed to describe recovery and we derived new indices to describe recovery (all R

interpretationUsing complementary approaches.

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Peripheral Nerve InjuriesSciatic NerveAnimalsAxonsNerve CrushNerve RegenerationPeroneal NerveRatsRecovery of Functioncommon peroneal nerveindexregeneration

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