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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of neurons in cerebral cortex | Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes | 6.7e+9 | neurons | 109329 | Hart BL, Hart LA, Pi... |
| Thickness of cerebral cortex | Human Homo sapiens | ~2.5 (1 - 4.5) | mm | 110098 | Fischl B, Dale AM. Measuring... |
| Copper concentration in cortex | Mouse Mus musculus | 3.1 (±0.2) | μg/g | 104007 | Malm TM, Iivonen H, ... |
| Division of cerebral cortex by volume | Mouse Mus musculus | Axons 29.3: dendrites 30.2: ds 12.06: glia 9.5: cell bodies and blood vessels 13.8: ex 5.2 | % | 106133 | Braitenberg V. Brain... |
| Number of synapses in cerebral cortex | Human Homo sapiens | ~1.5×10^14 | synapses | 112056 | Drachman D (2005). "Do... |
| Number of synapses in cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 3.6e+14 (29,800 synapses/neuron) | Unitless | 106138 | Roth G, Dicke U. Evolution... |
| Number of synapses in cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 1.5e+14 | unitless | 100693 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Length of Spectrin tetramer in erythrocyte cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 200 | nm | 101813 | Cell movements - from... |
| Number of tropomyosin in red blood cell cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 80000 | Copies/cell | 101810 | Dennis Bray, Cell movements... |
| Time interval over which cerebral cortex folding largely occurs | Mammals | in ferrets postnatal day (P)10 to P30: in rhesus macaques gestation days (G)90 to G135: in humans from the 25th week of gestation to a postnatal age of 4 months Table - link | N/A | 117215 | Kroenke CD, Bayly PV.... |
| Number of glycophorin dimers in red blood cell cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 1e+6 | Copies/cell | 101806 | Dennis Bray, Cell movements... |
| Number of spectrin dimers in red blood cell cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 200000 | Copies/cell | 101807 | Cell movements - from... |
| Number of ankyrin proteins in red blood cell cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 100000 | Copies/cell | 101808 | Dennis Bray, Cell movements... |
| Number of Actin monomers in red blood cell cortex | Human Homo sapiens | 5e+5 | Copies/cell | 101809 | Dennis Bray, Cell movements... |
| Dimensions of (spindle-like) cortex cell in hair and diameter of microfibril in cortex cell | Mammals | cell length ~100µm: maximum cell width 5µm: microfibril diameter ~7nm | N/A | 114261 | Wolfram LJ. Human hair:... |
| Distance action potentials propagate in rodent cortex | Mammals | 4 | cm | 108628 | Attwell D, Laughlin SB.... |
| Percent of mitochondria in visual cortex neurons located in axons | macaque | 12 | % | 103273 | Rolfe DF, Brown GC. Cellular... |
| Percent of mitochondria in visual cortex located in glial cells | macaque | 2 | % | 103274 | Rolfe DF, Brown GC. Cellular... |
| Stability of dendritic spines in visual cortex | Mouse Mus musculus | 94% of spines were stable >three days: 81% stable >2 weeks: 73% stable >one month | % | 112030 | Meyer, M.P., Niell, C.M... |
| Number of synapses in a cubic millimeter of primary visual cortex (Area 17) | Macaque Macaca fascicularis | 266 (± 33 S.D.) | synapses/mm³ (×10⁶) | 112218 | O’Kusky, J., & Colonnier... |