The Autonomous Nervous system

Question 1

Vegetative = visceral = autonomous system

Answer 1

Control of inner organs, vessels, glands-> homeostasis in inner milieu
Sympathetic, Parasympathetic, Intestine NS (second brain)

Question 2

Sympathetic

Answer 2

Stress adaption: heart rate, pupils, temperature

• Thorax and lumbar
• Sympathetic chain ganglia next to spinal cord or pre vertebral ganglion -> fast information transport
• Short axons until ganglia, then long until organs, close by vertebrae bones

Question 3

Parasympathetic NS

Answer 3

Regeneration, rest, digestion trophotropic
Controlling eyes, glands, heart, vessels, lungs, urinary blade
-brain stem and steißmark
-more specific, close to effectors/target organ
-long axons until ganglia then just short until organs,

Question 4

Transmitter

Answer 4

AcH in synaptic cleft

Noradrenaline in synaptic cleft