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Sympathetic Nervous System
Endogenous sympathetic response etc.
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/12/2010

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Term
Endogenous sympathetic response:
Flight or Fight response to danger.
Name a few effects
Definition
- Increasing hear rate, and contractility
- shunting blood to the muscles and heart
- strong effect on vascular functions
- acetylcholine transmits impulses in ganglia
- acetylcholine transmits impulses in cholinergic receptors of sweat and at some vascular nerve endings.
- Norepinephrine is main chemical transmitter at post-ganglionic adrenergic nerve endings in end-organs.
Term
______ stimulates the adrenergic receptor
______ increases levels of norepinephrine at adreneric receptors.
Definition
ephedrine
cocaine
Term
acetylcholinesterase is inhibited by _______?
Definition
physostigmine
Term
________ and _______ block the muscarinic receptors preventing the action of acetylcholine, this results in a dominance of the sympathetic nervous system
Definition
atropine, scopolamine
Term
Parasympathetic Nervous System is an _____ system that _______ energy.
Definition
anabolic, conserves
Term
Parasympathetic NS: nerves originate from ______ _____ regions
Definition
Cranial Sacral
Term
PNS: ______ the absorption and digestion of food, and ______ the heart rate.
Definition
promotes, slows.
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