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Inhibition of parasympathetic nervous system activity causes the salivary glands to become?
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Regulates heart activity via the vagus nerve?
Parasympathetic nervous system
Decreasing heart rate is under the control of what nervous division?
Parasympathetic
Why is the parasympathetic nervous system important?
autonomic The parasympathetic nervous system is part of the nervous system.
What are the two nervous systems?
parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems
Another name for the parasympathetic nervous system is?
Another name for the parasympathetic nervous system is the craniosacral, which describes the area of the spinal cord where the nerves are located.
Which part of nervous system cause increase salivary secretion?
Parasympathetic
Regulates heart activity via the vagus nerve?
Parasympathetic nervous system
What division of the autonomic nervous system mediates the reflex release of saliva?
The parasympathetic nervous system stimulates salivary gland secretion, and accelerates peristalsis, so, in keeping with the rest and digest functions, appropriate PNS activity mediates digestion of food and indirectly, the absorption of nutrients. Source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system enteric nervous system is responsible for the pupillary light reflex
What target organs are affected by the sympathetic nervous system but not by the parasympathetic nervous system?
Cellular metabolism and coronary blood vessels Affected by BOTH = Gallbladder & Salivary glands
What is innervate?
Innervated by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. This allows for both branches of autonomic NS (sympathetic and parasympathetic) to precisely control an organ's activity.
Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system's are subdivisions of what nervous system?
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system.
Decreasing heart rate is under the control of what nervous division?
Parasympathetic
What process does the parasympathetic nervous system not stimulate?
The parasympathetic nervous system does not stimulate the fight or flight response.
What is dual innervation?
Innervated by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. This allows for both branches of autonomic NS (sympathetic and parasympathetic) to precisely control an organ's activity.
What does the parasympathetic nervous system stimulate in the micturition reflex?
The parasympathetic nervous system allows the act of micturition. The sympathetic nervous system inhibits it.
Prolonged stress may promote illness by depressing the functioning of the?
the parasympathetic nervous system.
What is the role of the system nervous?
During periods of stress or increased activity, the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system predominates. And during periods of rest, the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system predominates
