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Scaling of Brain Metabolism and Blood Flow in Relation to Capillary and Neural Scaling

Brain is one of the most energy demanding organs in mammals, and its total metabolic rate scales with brain volume raised to a power of around 5/6. This value is significantly higher than the more common exponent 3/4 relating whole body resting metabolism with body mass and several other physiologic...

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Autor principal: Karbowski, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22053202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026709

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