(03) Autonomic Nervous System I Flashcards
What in the involuntary system controlling visceral function?
- ANS
IS the ANS a component of the PNS?
- yes
What are the components of the ANS?
- sympathetic + parasympathetic + enteric NS
Is the parasympathetic NS the “fight or flight” response
- no, that is the sympathetic NS
What are the origins of the preganglionic neurons in the sympathetic NS (generally)?
- T1-L3
What are the lengths of the neurons relative to ganglions in sympathetic NS?
- short pre-ganglionic, long post-ganglionic neuron
What NS is the “rest and digest”?
- parasympathetic NS
For parasympathetic NS - what are the origins of the pre-ganglionic neurons?
- Cranial nerves (3,7,9,10), S2-S4
What are the lengths of the neurons relative to ganglions in parasympathetic NS?
- long pre-ganglionic, short post-ganglionic neuron
Differentiate Autonomic and somatic nervous systems.
- Autonomic involuntary, somatic voluntary
What is the main division of the PNS (all cranial nerves and spinal nerves)?
- somatic division (SNS) and autonomic division (ANS)
What does the somatic division innervate? What type of sensory? control?
- innervates skeletal muscle - general somatic sensory - voluntary control
What does the autonomic division innervate? What type of control?
- innervates visceral organs; muscle, glands, adipose; - involuntary control
What type of motor system is the somatic nervous system? What is the unit? Where are the cell bodies? Where do axons synapse? What does pre-synaptic terminal release? What type of receptor is on motor endplate?
- voluntary motor system under conscious control - single motorneuron and skeletal muscle fiber - in the CNS - brainstem of spinal cord - directly on skeletal muscle - acetylcholine - nicotinic cholinergic receptor
What type of system is the autonomic nervous system? The unit of this system? Where are the cell bodies of pre-ganglionic neuron? Where do axons of pre-ganglionic neurons synapse? Where do axons of post-ganglionic neurons synapse? What do pre-ganglionic neurons release? Post ganglionic?
- involuntary system that controls function primarily of visceral organs - two neurons: pre-ganglionic and post-ganglionic - in CNS - cell bodies of post-ganglionic neurons in autonomic ganglia outside CNS - visceral effector organs - acetylcholine (ACh) - ACh, NE, or neuropeptides