Autonomic Nervous System I

Question 1

GVA

Answer 1

General visceral Afferent

Question 2

GVE

Answer 2

General Visceral Efferent

Question 3

Efferent is…

Answer 3

Motor, Ventral

Question 4

Afferent is..

Answer 4

Sensory, Dorsal

Question 5

How many neurons between the CNS and the target for GVA?

Answer 5

1

Question 6

How many neurons between the CNS and the target for GSA?

Answer 6

1

Question 7

Where are the GVA cell bodies located

Answer 7

sensory ganglia of the spinal and cranial nerves

Question 8

How neurons between the CNS and the target for GVE?

Answer 8

2

Question 9

What are the 3 types of autonomic motor ganglia?

Answer 9

Chain, Collateral, Terminal

Question 10

What type of neuron contains preganglionic and postganlionic components?

Answer 10

GVE

Question 11

What type of output does the GVE give?

Answer 11

Motor output to glands, smooth muscle, cardiac muscle

Question 12

What are the functional and anatomic divisions of GVE?

Answer 12

sympathetic and parasympathetic

Question 13

How do sympathetic and parasympathetic systems differ?

Answer 13

Locations of the preganglionic and postganglionic cell bodies

Neurotransmitters and receptors

Patterns of innervation

Question 14

Where are preganglionic sympathetic (thoracolumbar) cell bodies located?

Answer 14

intermediolateral cell column in gray matter in T1-L2

Question 15

Where are postganglionic cell bodies of the sympathetic nervous system located?

Answer 15

paravertebral chain or collateral prevertebral motor ganglia and medulla of adrenal gland

Question 16

Where does sympathetic innervation project to?

Answer 16

1. Visceral structures of body wall (limbs, trunk, neck)
2. Visceral structures of head
3. Viscera of thorax
4. Viscera of abdomen and pelvis

Question 17

The parasympathetic (craniosacral) preganglionic cell bodies are located

Answer 17

in the nuclei of CN (3,7,9,10) in brain stem and in ventral horn of gray matter S2-S4

Question 18

Where are parasympathetic postganglionic cell bodies located?

Answer 18

terminal motor ganglia near the target (except for head)

Question 19

Where are parasympathetic postganglionic cell bodies located in the head?

Answer 19

usually on the surgace of or embedded in the wall of organ innervated

Question 20

What three regions does the parasymphathetic nervous system project to?

Answer 20

Visceral Structures of head

Viscera of thorax and upper abdomen

viscera of lower abdomen and pelvis

Question 21

T or F one preganglionic neuron may synapse with many postganglionic neurons

Answer 21

T

Question 22

Where are the 14 preganglionic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system located?

Answer 22

T2-L2

Question 23

What are is the name for the 14 presympatheic spinal nerves?

Answer 23

White rami communicantes