Some Results of Substituting Other Nerves for the Phrenic

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Abstract
The long thoracic, spinal accessory and facial nerves were united to the distal end of the phrenic nerve in a series of rats and cats. Each of the nerves substituted for the phrenic innervated the diaphragm 140-218 days after the anastomosis. With the spinal cord transected at the 1st thoracic level and the opposite phrenic nerve avulsed none of the substituted nerves spontaneously produced adequate contractions of the diaphragm; however, animals in this condition were kept alive for an hr. or more by periodic electrical stimulation of of substituted nerve above the site of anastomosis.

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