Autonomics Flashcards
The CNS can be broken down into…
Afferent and Efferent Division
Define: Afferent Division of CNS
Brings info from internal and external environment to CNS away from PNS
The Afferent Division of the autonomic nervous system can be broken into…
Sensory Stimuli
Visceral Stimuli
Define: Peripheral Nervous System
Nerve fibers that run between PNS and CNS
Define: Efferent Division
Takes info from CNS to muscles and glands
The Efferent Division can be broken into…
Somatic Nervous System
Autonomic Nervous System
Somatic Nervous System has ___ control
voluntary
Autonomic Nervous system has ___ control
involuntary
The somatic nervous system is made up of…
Motor Neurons
The autonomic nervous sytem is made up of…
Sympathtic Nervous System
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Which system effects skeletal muscle?
Somatic Nervous System
Which system effects smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glands?
Autonomic Nervous System
Which system is “Fight or Flight”?
Sympathetic Nervous System
Which system is “Rest and Digest”
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Define: Mechanoreceptors
stretch, sound waves
Define: Osmoreceptors
Solute concentration
Define: Chemoreceptors
Specific chemicals (smell, taste, O2, CO2, glc, aa, fats)
How does the CNS control mucles and glands?
Efferent Division
How many different neurotransmitters are released from efferent nerves to influence all neurally controlled effector responses?
2
ACh, NE
Control: Somatic Nervous System
Voluntary from cerebral cortex
Control: Autonomic Nervous System
Involuntary from hypothalamus
Motor Neuron Pathway: Somatic Nervous System
1-neuron
CNS to Effector
Motor Neuron Pathway: Autonomic Nervous System
Usually 2-neurons
pre: CNS to ganglion
post: ganglion to effector
Neurotransmitter: Somatic Nervous System
ACh
Neurotransmitter: Autonomic Nervous System
All pre: ACh
Parasympathetic post: ACh
Most sympathetic post: NE
Chromaffin (adrenal medulla): NE & EPI
Target: Somatic Nervous System
Skeletal Muscle
Target: Autonomic Nervous System
Smooth/Cardiac muscle
glands
Response: Somatic Nervous System
Contraction
Response: Autonomic Nervous System
Contract/relax smooth muscle
Inc/Dec rate and force of contraction of cardiac muscle
Inc/Dec secretion of glands
Somatic Nervous System
Spinal cord -> Somatic Motor Neuron (Myelinated) -> ACh, Effector: Skeletal Muscle
Autonomic Nervous System: Sympathetic preganglionic neuron (myelinated)
Spinal cord -> sympathetic preganglionic neuron -> ACh, autonomic ganglion -> Sympathetic postganglionic neuron (unmyelinated) -> NE, Effectors: glands, cardiac muscle, smooth muscle
Autonomic Nervous System: Parasympathetic
Spinal cord -> parasympathetic preganglionic neuron -> ACh, autonomic ganglion -> parasympathetic postganglionic neuron -> ACh, Effectors: glands, cardiac muscle, smooth muscle
Autonomic Nervous System: Adrenal Medulla
Spinal cord -> sympathetic preganglionic neuron -> ACh, adrenal medulla -> releases neurotransmitters: Epinephrine, NE
What is the structure of the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Shorter preganglionic nerurons
Long postganglionic neurons extend across body
What is the structure of the shorter preganglionic neurons in the Sympathetic nervous system?
Originate from thoracolumbar region of SC T1 - L2
Travel to a ganglion
synaose with a postganglionic neuron
Sympathetic Nervous System: Preganglionic Fiber neurotransmitters
ACh
Sympathetic Nervous System: Postganglionic Fiber neurotransmitters
NE
Sympathetic Nervous System: Adrenal Medulla Neurotransmitter
EPI
NE
What are the effects of the sympathetic nervous system?
Fight or Flight