Cellular scaling rules for primate brains

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

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3562-3567

  Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^b   Collins, Christine E ^a   Wong, Peiyan ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain size; Evolution; Number of glia; Number of neurons

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; GLIA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; INDOLES; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 33847677187     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611396104     Document Type: Article

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