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A nervous system can alter activities in its target cells in muscles and glands because?
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the target cells have receptor proteins for the signals released by the nervous system.
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What system controls muscles and regulates body activity?
The nervous system controls muscles and glands by electrical impulses.
What are effectors of the nervous system?
The effectors of the nervous system are muscles and glands. They respond to nervous stimuli.
How are muscles and glands considered in regard to the nervous system?
They are effectors
What nervous system brings back information from muscles and glands?
Peripheral
Which part of the nervous system carries impulses to involuntary muscles and glands?
autonomicautonomic
Which body system is responsible for directing activities of the other systems?
The nervous system is responsible for directing and coordinating activities of the other systems in the body. It receives and processes information from the sensory organs, sends signals to muscles and glands, and controls voluntary and involuntary actions.
What helps the nervous system organize and direct the activities of the body?
adrenal glands
What is the autonmic nervous system?
the part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands
Are muscles and glands myelinated?
Muscles and glands are not myelinated. It is the axon of a neuron that is myelinated. The myelin forms a layer called myelin sheath that makes the nervous system function properly.
What nervous system innervates cardiac and smooth muscles and glands?
They are controlled by the autonomous nervous system.== ==
What are the function of motor?
The function is to catch/take impulses from the central nervous system and send it to muscles and glands
What is the type of tissue that receives stimuli transmit impulses and controls the actions of the muscles and glands?
nervous tissue
