Cellular scaling rules for rodent brains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 32, 2006, Pages 12138-12143

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a   Mota, Bruno ^b   Lent, Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain size; Comparative neuroanatomy; Number of glia; Number of neurons

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; GLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

RODENTIA;

EID: 33747046064     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604911103     Document Type: Article

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