| Value |
3.5
ml/100g brain/min
Range: Table - link ml/100g brain/min
|
| Organism |
Human Homo sapiens |
| Reference |
Sokoloff L (1996) The metabolism of the central nervous system in vivo. In: Handbook of physiology-neurophysiology (Field J, Magoun HW, Hall VE, eds), pp 1843–1864. Washington, DC: American Physiological Society. p.1846 table 1 & p.1847 right column 3rd paragraph |
| Primary Source |
See pointers to refs on right of table |
| Comments |
"From the data on the rate of oxygen consumption
of the brain presented in table 1, it is apparent that
its energy output is quite substantial, indeed one of
the highest of all the organs of the body. Consuming
oxygen at an average rate of 3.5 ml per 100 gm per
min., a brain of average weight, approximately
1,400 gm, accounts for a total oxygen consumption
of 49 ml per min. or almost 20 per cent of the total
basal body oxygen consumption of the normal young
human adult." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
110633 |