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Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
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Fraction of anterior pituitary endocrine cells that produce adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) | Unspecified | ~10 | % | 115258 | de Keyzer Y et al., V3... |
Conduction velocities of impulse between corticospinal tract and brainstem | Monkey | ≤110 | m/sec | 110612 | Harvey A. Swadlow and... |
Average number of dendritic spines | Zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata | 74±13 in HVCx: 51±7 in HVCra | Spines per cell | 107570 | Tschida KA, Mooney R.... |
Fraction of neurons that are excitatory | Unspecified | ~85 | % | 111649 | Harris JJ, Jolivet R... |
Fraction of striatum that is striosomes (also known as patches) | Vertebrates | 10-15 | % of striatal volume | 117204 | Brimblecombe KR, Cragg SJ... |
Size of synaptic cleft | Human Homo sapiens | 20 to 40 | nm | 108451 | The Dana Foundation-a... |
Rate of transport of amino acid in the fast component | Rat Rattus norvegicus | 240 - 420 | mm/day | 112229 | Vahlsing HL, Hirschl RB... |
Average number of neurons in the mouse brain | Mouse Mus musculus | 7.5e+7 | unitless | 100731 | http://www.nervenet.... |
Blood flow required by central nervous system | Human Homo sapiens | ~55 | ml/100g/min | 110631 | Sokoloff L (1996) The... |
Fraction of energy consumed by ribosomal translation | Various | Rapidly growing bacterial cell ~50%: differentiating mammalian cell ~30% | % | 110441 | Li GW, Burkhardt D, Gross C... |
GABA concentration in brain | Unspecified | 1 | mM | 115055 | Krnjević, K. "Chemical... |
Surface area of (1.3 kg) brain | Human Homo sapiens | ~20 | m^2 | 117111 | Abbott NJ, Rönnbäck L... |
Number of adult neural cells that form major neuropile substructures of the brain, such as the central complex, that are contributed by type II NBs (neuroblasts) | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | ~5000 | type II NBs (neuroblasts) | 117237 | Homem CC, Knoblich JA.... |
Fraction of outer subventricular zone (OSVZ) progenitor cells that express nuclear and cytoplasmic markers typical of radial glia (RG) and also possess radial fibers | Vertebrates | ~40 | % of OSVZ progenitor cells | 117213 | Lui JH, Hansen DV, Kriegstein... |
Annual expansion of the ventricles in healthy elderly and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients | Human Homo sapiens | healthy elderly ~1.5-3.0%: AD patients 5-16% | % | 114372 | Streitbürger DP et al.... |
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... |
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... |
Increase in density of neurons in cortex of females compared with males | Human Homo sapiens | ~4,000 | neurons/mm^3 higher in the female than in the male | 115166 | Haug H. Brain sizes, surfaces... |
Glial cell density in grey matter of brain | Human Homo sapiens | 30,000 - 60,000 | cells/mm^3 | 115169 | Haug H. Brain sizes, surfaces... |
Expansion in the size of the brain relative to the body in humans compared to lower primates | Human Homo sapiens | 3 | fold expansion | 111648 | Harris JJ, Jolivet R... |