“…Secondly, postganglionic fibres are not very discriminating, but readily contact target opportunities along whatever path they happen to follow (Langley, 1897;Purves & Thompson, 1979). Finally, the cat sural nerve contains only about one-third of the fibres than the tibial nerve and thus fewer postganglionic fibres have the opportunity to innervate a relatively vast territory (McLachlan & Jiinig, 1983) and suturing a small nerve to a large stump is thought to favour regeneration and to minimize degeneration of unmyelinated fibres (Aldskogius, Arvidsson & Grant, 1985;Lisney, 1989).…”