“…Our main objective is to set up an experimental base-line for a quantitative evaluation of therapeutic strategies aimed at mobilizing and enhancing the potential for regeneration of the injured motor unit, such as investigating the effectiveness of neurotrophic factors or assessing various approaches to micro reconstruction of injured nerves [4,9,11,12,14,23,24,27,29,30,31,33,35,45]. Our main objective is to set up an experimental base-line for a quantitative evaluation of therapeutic strategies aimed at mobilizing and enhancing the potential for regeneration of the injured motor unit, such as investigating the effectiveness of neurotrophic factors or assessing various approaches to micro reconstruction of injured nerves [4,9,11,12,14,23,24,27,29,30,31,33,35,45].…”