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The motor functional recovery was assessed by the rats’ hind paws recorded on the white paper. The sciatic functional index (SFI) was calculated by the following formula (Varejão et al., 2001):
where PL is the length of paw, TS is the distance between toes 1 and 5, and IT is the distance between toes 2 and 4. E represents the data of experimental sides, and N represents the data of normal sides.
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