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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper concentration in brain tissue cell | Mouse Mus musculus | 1.8±0.4x10^7 | atoms/cell | 108841 | Meera R Raja, Scott... |
| Fraction of basal metabolism required by brain growth prenatally | Human Homo sapiens | 60 | % | 106136 | Roth G, Dicke U. Evolution... |
| Increase in brain weight from birth to full maturity | Rodent | rat ~600%: guinea pig ~60% | % | 117229 | Josselyn SA, Frankland... |
| Fraction of brain nerve cells that are neuroglia | Eukaryotes | A few cells nematode: 25% fruit fly: 65% mouse: ~90% human: 97% elephant | % | 106400 | Allen NJ, Barres BA.... |
| Average number of neurons in the mouse brain | Mouse Mus musculus | 7.5e+7 | unitless | 100731 | http://www.nervenet.... |
| Time until reflex loss after loss of blood supply to brain | Human Homo sapiens | 40-110 | sec | 100695 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Fraction of brain that is constituted by white matter | Human Homo sapiens | >40 | % | 114485 | Hildebrand C, Remahl S... |
| Fraction of neurons in brain that are granule cells | Human Homo sapiens | 87.5 | % | 106407 | Williams RW, Herrup K.... |
| Number of glia cells in a mouse brain | Mouse Mus musculus | 3.4e+7 | unitless | 100733 | http://www.nervenet.... |
| Characteristic number of neurons in the brain | Human Homo sapiens | 1e+11 | unitless | 100690 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Duration of the cycle of growth of the human brain | Human Homo sapiens | first ~1.5 | decades of life after conception | 113146 | Caviness VS Jr, Kennedy DN... |
| Variability of size in brain (possibly only in forebrain) | Human Homo sapiens | ~15 - 20 | % above and below the mean values | 114631 | Haug H. Brain sizes, surfaces... |
| Percent of resting metabolism that is attributed to brain | Human Homo sapiens | 20 | % | 108621 | Attwell D, Laughlin SB.... |
| Kcat of human brain 6PF2K wild type | Human Homo sapiens | 0.407 (±0.022 Table - link) | Sec^-1 | 104959 | Manes NP, El-Maghrabi... |
| Ratio between granule and purkinje cells in brain | Mammals | 200 to 1 in mouse: 3,000 to 1 in human | Unitless | 106408 | Williams RW, Herrup K.... |
| Mean volume of whole brain, amygdala and hippocampus in infants, children and adolescents/adults of both sexes | Human Homo sapiens | Table - link | cm^3 | 113145 | Uematsu A et al., De... |
| Brain weight, encephalization quotient and number of cortical neurons in selected mammals | Mammals | Table - link | N/A | 106135 | Roth G, Dicke U. Evolution... |
| Number of neurons in larval brain of Drosophila | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 10,000-15,000 | neurons | 101672 | Scott et al. A Chemosensory... |
| Fraction of neurons in brain in which 70% of the genes are expressed | Mouse Mus musculus | <20 | % of cells | 112020 | O'Rourke NA, Weiler NC... |
| Ratio between glia cell number and neuron number in brain | Human Homo sapiens | 10 - 50 | unitless | 110874 | Herculano-Houzel S, Mota B... |