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From: Global and regional brain metabolic scaling and its functional consequences

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Scaling of the volume-specific glucose utilization rate, CMRglc, in cerebral cortex with brain volume. The specific metabolic scaling exponent, corresponding to the slope of the regression line, had the following values: (A) -0.12 for visual cortex (y = -0.12x + 0.02); (B) -0.15 for parietal cortex (y = -0.15x + 0.01); (C) -0.15 for sensorimotor cortex (y = -0.15x + 0.02); (D) -0.15 for temporal cortex (y = -0.15x + 0.07). (E) Average glucose utilization rate of the entire cerebral cortex yielded the specific exponent -0.15 (y = -0.15x + 0.03).

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