Table 1.
Metrology of rat versus mouse pial vasculature
Entire pial vasculature |
Backbone edges |
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Areal territory (mean ± SD) mm2 | Total length (mean ± SD) mm | Fraction of edges (mean ± SE) | Fraction of vertices (mean ± SE) | Total length (mean ± SD) mm | Number of Kirchhoff loops (mean ± SD) | |
Rat | 145 ± 6 | 453 ± 12 | 0.149 ± 0.013 | 0.106 ± 0.001 | 260± 26 | 120.8 ± 7.8 |
Mouse | 52 ± 3 | 175 ± 9 | 0.071 ± 0.012 | 0.062 ± 0.008 | 76.6 ± 8.5 | 27.4 ± 2.9 |