Physical Rehabilitation of Paralysed Facial Muscles: Functional and Morphological Correlates

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Deficient functional recovery after facial nerve crush in rats is associated with restricted rearrangements of synaptic terminals in the facial nucleus

“…Previous work has suggested that excessive ''polyinnervation'' of endplates is a major factor limiting functional recovery after facial nerve repair (GuntinasLichius et al, 2005b;Angelov et al, 2007;Angelov, 2011).…”