New estimates of blood flow rates in the vertebral artery of euarchontans and their implications for encephalic blood flow scaling: A response to Seymour and Snelling (2018)

J Hum Evol. 2019 Mar:128:93-98. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.10.002. Epub 2018 Nov 17.

Authors

Doug M Boyer¹, Arianna R Harrington²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA. Electronic address: doug.boyer@duke.edu.
² Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.

PMID: 30454907
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.10.002

No abstract available

Keywords: Brain blood perfusion; Brain metabolism; Circle of Willis; Metabolic scaling; Vertebral artery.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Brain / anatomy & histology
Brain / blood supply*
Carotid Artery, Internal / anatomy & histology
Carotid Artery, Internal / physiology*
Phylogeny
Primates / anatomy & histology
Primates / blood
Primates / physiology*
Scandentia / anatomy & histology
Scandentia / blood
Scandentia / physiology*