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When regeneration of the peripheral nerve takes place at an early stage of development, e.g. after nerve crush in newborn rats, the result of reinnervation is very poor. About 50 % of the neurons the axons of which had been crushed do not survive whether they be spinal motoneurons, or spinal ganglion cells (Romanes, 1946; Zelená and Hník, 1963; Schmalbruch, 1984; Jenq et al., 1987). In the reinnervated muscles, the number of muscle spindles is dramatically reduced and their structure is permanently altered (Hník and Zelená, 1961; Zelená and Hník, 1963; Soukup and Zelená, this volume).
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Paleček, J., Vejsada, R., Hník, P., Soukup, T., Vlachová, V., Asmussen, G. (1988). Functional Properties of Atypical Muscle Spindles After Nerve Crush in Newborn Rats. In: Hník, P., Soukup, T., Vejsada, R., Zelená, J. (eds) Mechanoreceptors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0812-4_27
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