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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length of Pacinian corpuscles in adult hand | Human Homo sapiens | ≤3 - 4 | mm | 112606 | Zimmerman A et al., The... |
| Average lifetime of TSPs [thymus-seeding progenitors] and ETPs [early T lineage progenitors] combined | Mouse Mus musculus | 9 - 12 | days | 113827 | Krueger A, Ziętara N... |
| Fraction of apoptosis in thymus that occurrs due to negative selection | Mouse Mus musculus | ~25 | % | 113828 | Krueger A, Ziętara N... |
| Average number of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells exported from thymus each day (equivalent to 1% of all thymocytes) | Mouse Mus musculus | 1,000,000 - 4,000,000 | T cells/day | 113829 | Krueger A, Ziętara N... |
| Fraction of naïve T cell production that is thymus derived in adult | Human Homo sapiens | 10 - 20 | % | 113830 | Krueger A, Ziętara N... |
| Factors by which human and mouse differ (humans are greater by a factor of:) | Mammals | lifespan 30-50: size and total cellularity 3,000: number of cell divisions throughout life 10^5 | unitless | 113831 | Krueger A, Ziętara N... |
| Brain metabolic cost out of whole body | Mammals | 2% - 10% non-humans: 20% humans | % | 110878 | Herculano-Houzel S. Scaling... |
| 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of specific metabolic rates (ki) of major organs and tissues | Human Homo sapiens | Table - link | kcal/(kg×day) | 112384 | Wang Z. et al., Specific... |
| Age-adjusted Ki values (and their 95% CIs) of specific metabolic rates of major organs and tissues | Human Homo sapiens | Table - link | kcal/(kg×day) | 112385 | Wang Z. et al., Specific... |
| Expansion in number of cells of adult wings from imaginal discs (over the course of five days) | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | from ~50 to 50,000 | cells | 112074 | Buchmann A, Alber M,... |
| Number of generations, under selection for improved visual acuity, required to produce a focused camera-type eye from a patch of light-sensitive epithelium | Metazoa animals | <400,000 | generations | 117183 | Fernald RD. Casting a... |
| Time octopus and vertebrate eye arose | Metazoa animals | octopus eye arose ∼480: vertebrate eye arose 640 to 490 | million years ago | 117181 | Fernald RD. Casting a... |
| Fraction of thymus that undergoes programmed cell death (PCD) | Mouse Mus musculus | 10 - 15 | % | 112334 | Gavrieli Y, Sherman Y... |
| Brain volume | Human Homo sapiens | 1.5 | liter | 112053 | Drachman D (2005). "Do... |
| Fraction of all neurons that are produced in embryonic NB (neuroblast) divisions | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | of larval central nervous system (CNS) 100%: of adult CNS 10% | % of cells | 117236 | Homem CC, Knoblich JA.... |
| Distribution of systemic blood flow to the various organs and tissues of the body at rest | Human Homo sapiens | Table - link | N/A | 109465 | Vander, A., J. Sherman... |
| Concentration of lymphocytes in lymphoid organs | Rat Rattus norvegicus | mesenteric lymph node (GMM) 1.1×10^6: spleen 2.0×10^6: thymus 3.6×10^6 | cells/mg wet weight | 113198 | Everett NB, Caffrey RW... |
| Turnover of nuclei from liver | Rat Rattus norvegicus | 4 to 6 | Months | 109452 | Savas JN, Toyama BH, Xu T... |
| Mutant frequency in small intestine | Mouse Mus musculus | young mice 11e-5 old mice 25.6e-5 | mutant frequency (uncertain units ?) | 110457 | Busuttil RA, Garcia AM... |
| Mutant frequency in brain | Mouse Mus musculus | young mice 4.8e-5 old mice 5.0e-5 | mutant frequency (uncertain units ?) | 110458 | Busuttil RA, Garcia AM... |