Scaling of brain metabolism and blood flow in relation to capillary and neural scaling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Karbowski, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BULK DENSITY; CELL DENSITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW RATE; GRAY MATTER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; RHESUS MONKEY; ANIMAL; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CAPILLARY; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BRAIN; CAPILLARIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 80055099916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026709     Document Type: Article

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