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. 2015 Oct 12;6:213. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2015.00213

Table 7.

Prior specification for organ volumes and flows of an adult male population as used in Allen et al. (2007).

Parameter Distribution Bounding Interval
Body Weight (BW) (kg) LN(log(67.77), log(1.603)) (30.81, 139.9)
Cardiac Output (L/hr) N(20, 10) (6.8, 33.2)
TISSUE VOLUME (AS FRACTION OF BW)
Liver volume N(0.026, 0.013) (0.006, 0.046)
Kidney volume N(0.004, 0.002) (0.0004, 0.008)
Brain volume N(0.02, 0.01) (0.002, 0.038)
Intestine volume N(0.014, 0.007) (0.001, 0.027)
Gut volume N(0.017, 0.0085) (0.009, 0.025)
Richly perfused tissue volume N(0.10, 0.05) (0.01, 0.190)
Slowly perfused tissue volume N(0.35, 0.175) (0.18, 0.52)
Adipose volume N(0.273, 0.14) (0.076, 0.47)
Remainder (non-perfused) N(0.122, 0.061) (0.012,0.23)
PLASMA FLOW (AS FRACTION OF CARDIAC OUTPUT)
Liver flow N(0.046, 0.023) (0.01, 0.090)
Kidney flow N(0.175, 0.0875) (0.018,0.333)
Brain flow N(0.114, 0.057) (0.011, 0.217)
Gut flow N(0.181, 0.0905) (0.002, 0.360)
Richly perfused tissue flow N(0.183, 0.0915) (0.018, 0.348)
Slowly perfused tissue flow N(0.249, 0.1245) (0.025, 0.473)
Adipose flow N(0.052, 0.0256) (0.0052, 0.099)

Upper and lower bounds taken from Clewell et al. (1999).