Chapter Sixteen: Autonomic Nervous System Flashcards
The ANS is divided into what two divisions? What is the third nervous system branch of ANS?
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Entric Nervous System
What nervous system?
- nerve plexuses within the wall of the digestive tract
- stimulates/inhibits smooth muscle contraction
- stimulates/inhibits gland secretions
- detect changes in content of lumen
Entric Nervous System
Peripheral nerves contain both…and…neurons
motor
sensory
What type of motor neuron innervate skeletal muscles?
Somatic Neurons
What type of motor neuron innervate smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands?
Autonomic Neurons
Somatic or Autonomic?
- skeletal muscle
- conscious and unconscious movement
- skeletal muscle contracts - always excitatory
- one synapse
Somatic
Somatic or Autonomic?
- smooth and cardiac muscle and glands
- unconscious regulation
- target tissues stimulated or inhibited
- two synapses
Autonomic
What are primary substances produced by neurons of ANS?
neurotransmitters
…released by cholinergic neurons
Acetylcholine
…released by adrenergic neurons
Norepinephrine
Effector cells have…which combine with neurotransmitters to produce a response
receptors
…receptors bind acetylcholine
Cholinergic
What are the two types of Cholinergic receptors?
Nicotinic and Muscarinic
What type of Cholinergic receptor?
- all receptors on postganglionic neurons, all skeletal muscles, adrenal glands; excitatory
Nitotinic
What type of Cholinergic receptor?
- all receptors on parasympathetic effectors, receptors of some sweat glands; excitatory or inhibitory
Muscarinic