Nlu. Vanmeeteren et al., RECOVERY OF FUNCTION AFTER SCIATIC-NERVE CRUSH LESION IN RATS SELECTED FOR DIVERGING LOCOMOTOR-ACTIVITY IN THE OPEN-FIELD, Neuroscience letters, 238(3), 1997, pp. 131-134
The relation between recovery of function following a sciatic nerve cr
ush lesion and an individual behavioural characteristic, the locomotor
activity in an open field, was investigated in rats. Ten high-active
(HA) and ten low-active (LA) rats were selected from a stock of sixty
male, random-bred Wistar rats, by measuring travelled distance in an o
pen field. Subsequently, both HA and LA rats underwent an unilateral s
ciatic nerve crush. Recovery of motor function revealed no significant
differences between both groups, whereas recovery of sensory function
in HA rats was significantly more rapid than in the LA rats (P < 0.01
). These observations suggest the existence of a relationship between
individual behavioural characteristics, and the sensory recovery of ne
rve function following crush lesion in rats. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science
Ireland Ltd.