This article describes the regeneration of severed peripheral nerve axons along collagen filaments in the absence of the distal nerve stump. 22-mm long nerve guides made of collagen filaments were sutured to the proximal ends of severed rat sciatic nerves. The distal ends of the guides were sutured to the distal stumps of the nerves in a group and not sutured in the other. Nerve autografts and collagen tubes were used as controls. At 8 weeks postoperatively, the mean number and the mean diameter of myelinated axons were 5491 +/- 617 (mean +/- SD) and 2.3 +/- 1.3 microns at the distal ends of the collagen filaments nerve guides those the distal ends were sutured to the distal stumps of the nerves, while in the nerve autografts these were 4837 +/- 604 and 3.3 +/- 1.4 microns. These were 1992 +/- 770 and 2.7 +/- 1.2 microns at the distal ends of the collagen-filaments guides those the distal ends were not sutured to the distal stumps of the nerves, while in the nerve autografts these were 3041 +/- 847 and 2.3 +/- 1.1 microns. No axon was found at the distal ends of the collagen tubes. The results suggested that the contact guidance and the chemotaxis guided regenerating axons along the collagen filaments.
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