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It is proposed that under certain circumstances peripheral nerve may exist in a poorly or nonfunctional reversible state [termed hibernating peripheral nerve (HPN)] after neural insult. Furthermore, it is speculated that certain high intraneural concentrations of lidocaine may conceivably facilitate a hypothetical state of hibernating peripheral nerve.
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Howard S. Smith (2007) studied this question.
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