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. 2013 May 8;13:109. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-13-109

Table 2.

Organ-to-body ratio in the SD mouse embryo compared with the adult mouse

  E13.5 E17.5 16 wks postnatally
Brain
24.06±0.67% vol.
6.76±0.32% vol.
1.40±0.15% wt.
Heart
1.98±0.06% vol.
0.43±0.07% vol.
0.53±0.07% wt.
Liver 7.52±0.36% vol. 6.13±0.54% vol. 4.87±0.34% wt.

Percentage organ volume of the SD mouse embryo (refer to Figure 6) compared with the percentage organ weight of the adult mouse (averaged across 11 inbred strains) [20] (Mean ±Stdv).