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IN recent accounts1,2,3 of the factors which control the size reached by regenerating nerve fibres, the hypothesis has been put forward that the Schwann tubes which replace degenerating nerve fibres in the peripheral stump control the pattern of fibre sizes by the restriction which they impose on increase of diameter. In the absence of such restriction, the diameter which a regenerating fibre attains depends upon the calibre of its parent fibre in the central stump.
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SANDERS, F., YOUNG, J. Effect of Peripheral Connexion on the Diameter of Nerve Fibres. Nature 155, 237–238 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155237b0
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