Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 513, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 532-541

  Azevedo, Frederico A C ^a   Carvalho, Ludmila R B ^a   Grinberg, Lea T ^b,c   Farfel, José Marcelo ^b   Ferretti, Renata E L ^b   Leite, Renata E P ^b   Filho, Wilson Jacob ^b   Lent, Roberto ^a   Herculano Houzel, Suzana ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain size; Comparative neuroanatomy; Evolution; Glia neuron ratio; Human; Neuron numbers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL;

CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEURONAL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN NEUN, HUMAN;

AGED; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS;

EID: 64549116740     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21974     Document Type: Article

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