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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distribution of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF, mean 150ml) in adults | Human Homo sapiens | in the ventricles 25: in subarachnoid spaces 125 | ml | 117118 | Sakka L, Coll G, Chazal... |
| Rate at which water is generated by glucose metabolism in normal brain activity | Unspecified | ~28 | nL/gram/min | 117117 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Rate of spread of calcium waves through the astrocytic syncytium | Unspecified | ~100 | µm/sec | 117116 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Number of readily distinguished distinct astrocyte phenotypes | Unspecified | ~11 | distinct phenotypes | 117115 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Glutamate concentration | Unspecified | in interstitial fluid (ISF) <1: in plasma ~100 | µM | 117114 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) of tight junctions | Rat Rattus norvegicus | in peripheral capillaries 2-20: in brain endothelium >1000 | Ω.cm^2 | 117113 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Electrical resistance between tight junctions in the BBB (blood-brain barrier) endothelial cells and in other tissues | Unspecified | BBB endothelial cells 1500-2000: other tissues 3-33 | Ω.cm^2 | 117112 | Stamatovic SM, Keep RF... |
| Surface area of (1.3 kg) brain | Human Homo sapiens | ~20 | m^2 | 117111 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Distance of individual neuron from a brain capillary | Rat Rattus norvegicus | rarely >8–20 | µm | 117110 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
| Size of pores formed by claudins (Transmembrane proteins of the tight junction (TJ)) present in brain endothelial cells | Vertebrates | ~10 | Å | 117109 | Stamatovic SM, Keep RF... |
| Width of periventricular germinal matrix (GM) (in brain) in human fetuses | Human Homo sapiens | at 23–24 weeks 2.5mm: at 32 weeks 1.4mm: by approximately 36 weeks complete involution | mm | 117108 | Ballabh P, Braun A, ... |
| Genome-scale phylogeny of birds | Birds | Table - link | million years ago | 117107 | Jarvis ED et al., Wh... |
| Overall pan-genomic background substitution rate | Vertebrates | birds ~0.0019: mammals ~0.0027 | substitutions/site/million years | 117106 | Zhang G et al., Comparative... |
| Comparison of average size of introns, exons, and intergenic regions within avian, reptilian, and mammalian genomes | Vertebrates | Table - link | N/A | 117105 | Zhang G et al., Comparative... |
| Smallest and largest known genomes | Birds | black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexanderi) 0.91: common ostrich (Struthio camelus) ~1.3 | Gb | 117104 | Zhang G et al., Comparative... |
| Chronogram for divergence of Bilateria (scroll down below figure to see table) | Metazoa animals | Table - link | million years ago (Ma) | 117103 | Gregory D. Edgecombe et al.... |
| Divergence of arthropods and priapulids | Metazoa animals | ~575 | million years ago | 117102 | Peterson KJ, Cotton JA... |
| Divergence between echinoderms and chordates | Metazoa animals | ~900 | million years ago | 117101 | Pinto MR, Melillo D,... |
| Protostome/deuterostome divergence | Metazoa animals | ~1,000 | million years ago | 117100 | Pinto MR, Melillo D,... |
| Number of humoral and cell membrane proteins that are involved in the complement system in higher vertebrates | Vertebrates | >30 | proteins | 117099 | Pinto MR, Melillo D,... |