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    The document discusses the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and its efferent pathways. It describes the ANS as having long preganglionic fibers that synapse in ganglia close to their target organs. The postganglionic fibers then diverge to exert widespread influence through the use of neurotransmitters like catecholamines or acetylcholine. The sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the ANS have opposing but also synergistic effects on target organs like the gastrointestinal tract.

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    The document discusses the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and its efferent pathways. It describes the ANS as having long preganglionic fibers that synapse in ganglia close to their target organs. The postganglionic fibers then diverge to exert widespread influence through the use of neurotransmitters like catecholamines or acetylcholine. The sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the ANS have opposing but also synergistic effects on target organs like the gastrointestinal tract.

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    The Autonomic Nervous

    System (ANS)
    K, S & J , Ch 47
    Handout
    Reflex arc: Somatic & visceral
    Injury/Pain: Short list of events
    Autonomic
    Efferents
    Somatic and Visceral Efferents
    Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Efferents
    Dual supply
    Sympathetic Efferents
    Efferents: Basic design
    Long Preganglionic fibers
    -

    Main Characteristics
    - convergence and divergence

    - ratioof preganglionic to
    postganglionic 1/10

    - synaptic and hormonal


    widespread action

    -segmental distribution to the


    body

    - Neurotransmitters at effector level:


    * catecholamines
    * Exceptional situations: Ach
    The cholinergic:Cranio-sacral system
    Vagal Efferents:

    Long
    preganglionic
    fibers
    Discrete or localized action
    Autonomic Efferents : Head
    Antagonism
    Dual supply: GI
    Opposite effects

    Both excitatory
    One supply
    The Enteric Nervous System
    Autonomic Supply to the ENS
    Important about smooth muscle

    Smooth muscle do not have motor end-


    plates
    Neuromuscular synapses are established
    between autonomic efferents ( post
    ganglionic fibers) and the effector organ
    Synaptic contacts are not well differentiated
    and consist in diffuse synaptic fields
    Neuromuscular synapses
    Skeletal, Cardiac and Smooth muscles
    Autonomic Centers
    Autonomic Centers

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