Autonomic Nervous System Flashcards
What does the autonomic nervous system divide into?
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
What does the somatic nervous system divide into?
Sensory (afferent) & Motor (efferent)
What does the CNS develop from?
Neural tube
Where does the PNS develop from?
Develop from neural crest and CNS outgrowths
Receives information from and responds to external world
Somatic
Innervates structures that develop from somites
Somatic (Body)
Innervates organ systems & its elements
Visceral (Organs)
Detects and responds to information within body
Visceral (Organs)
What nervous system is excitatory?
Somatic
Stimulation of the axon/nerve results in the activation of a particular action
Somatic NS
Concerned with conscious sensation and response usually via striated muscle and contains parts of the CNS and PNS
Somatic NS
Provides sensory and motor innervation to all parts of the body except: viscera, smooth and cardiac muscle, & glands.
Somatic NS
Our autonomic NS and in generally concerned with sensations of our internal body and actions via smooth muscles and glands
Visceral NS
Provides efferent involuntary motor innervation to smooth muscle, the conducting system of the heart, and glands
Visceral NS
Provides afferent sensory innervation from the viscera (pain and autonomic reflexes)
Visceral NS
Can be excitatory of inhibitory when stimulated
ANS
Group of cell bodies in CNS
Nucleus
Group of cell bodies in PNS
Ganglion
Glia in CNS
Astrocyte
Oligodendroglia
Microglia
Glia in PNS
Schwann cell
Another name for schwann cell
Neurilemmal cell
Visceral portion of the NS which has sensory or afferent fibers
Autonomic NS
Monitors changes to the viscera. Arise from the neural crest
General Visceral Afferent
2 neuron chain
General Visceral efferent
What spinal levels are sympathetic?
T1-L2 (3)
Supply/innervate peripheral glands, smooth muscle and other viscera
Sympathetic
What is parasympathetic associated with?
Cranial nerves (III, VII, IX, &X) S2-S4
Supply and innervate peripheral viscera
Parasympathetic
Neurons in the walls of the alimentary canal controlling motility (contractions of the gut wall), exocrine and endocrine secretions, & blood flow thru the gastrointestinal tract, it also regulates immunological and inflammatory processes.
Enteric
What connections are between the enteric system and the CNS
Parasympathetic and sympathetic
Paravertebral sympathetic trunk
Sympathetic chain
Para-aortic ganglia, abdomen and pelvic
Pre-vertebral ganglia
Preganglionic cells of sympathetic
T1-L2 (thoracolumbar)