The scalable mammalian brain: Emergent distributions of glia and neurons

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 439-445

  Jehee, Janneke F M ^a,b   Murre, Jaap M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative neuroanatomy; Glia to neuron index; Neuron number

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BONE; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPARATIVE NEUROANATOMY; CORTICAL STRUCTURES; GLIA-TO-NEURON INDEX; NEURON NUMBER;

BRAIN MODELS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 42449103433     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-008-0228-y     Document Type: Article

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