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The thermodynamic brain

Apart from its complex functionality, the brain is a robust thermodynamic machine; the tissue metabolic rate is high and it is thermally shielded by a skull. Therefore, if there is no high-volume blood flow to cool and stabilize the brain temperature, the possibility of unstable behavior seems to be...

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Autores principales: Donnelly, Joseph, Czosnyka, Marek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25672816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-014-0693-8