BIOSC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Enteric Nervous System, Sympathetic Nervous System, Motor Neuron

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The ans is the portion of the nervous system that innervates [definition: provides neural input to] visceral tissues and organs. The ans regulates the involuntary or automatic functions of the body. The ans controls cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, exocrine glands/cells, endocrine glands/cells, and adipose tissue through the sympathetic and parasympathetic. Homeostasis is a dynamic balance between the autonomic branches. Classically the ans is an output system (and we will use the term that way), though some authors now use it more similarly to the terminology of somatic nervous system includes both efferent (output) and afferent (sensory) components. The enteric nervous system is a plexus of nerves associated with the gastrointestinal tract. In one sense it should be considered part of the ans because it does control smooth muscle and is certainly involuntary. On the other hand, it is not an output system of the cns, but rather can function independently (though it is under partial regulation by the.

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