Three but not more cross-bridges placed between a donor tibial (TIB) nerve and a recipient denervated common peroneal (CP) nerve enhance CP motor and sensory nerve regeneration after a 3 month delayed repair of the transected CP nerve.

<p>Mean (±SE) numbers of CP A. motor and B. sensory neurons that regenerated their axons through the chronically denervated CP distal nerve stump as a function of the number of side-to-side cross-bridges placed between the donor TIB nerve and the recipient CP nerve stump prior to delayed surgical repair (coaptation) of the transected CP nerve.