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More than 60 years ago it was proved by animal experiments that a denervated skeletal muscle can be re-innervated by implanting a proximal stump of a motor nerve into the area of distribution of the motor end plates (Steindler, 1915; Elsberg, 1917). McCoy and Rubin, repeated these experiments in 1977 with dogs and came to the same conclusion.
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Millesi, H., Walzer, L. (1981). Problems of Direct Neurotization. In: Freilinger, G., Holle, J., Carlson, B.M. (eds) Muscle Transplantation. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8618-3_30
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