Percent of weight that is brain
Value | 2 % |
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Organism | Human Homo sapiens |
Reference | Attwell D, Laughlin SB. An energy budget for signaling in the grey matter of the brain. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2001 Oct21(10):1133-45. p.1133 left columnPubMed ID11598490 |
Comments | "The neural processing of information is metabolically expensive. Although the human brain is 2% of the body’s weight, it accounts for 20% of its resting metabolism (Kety, 1957 Sokoloff, 1960 Rolfe and Brown, 1997)." |
Entered by | Uri M |
ID | 108620 |