Autonomic Nervous System & Divisions of the ANS - ANS vs Somatic nervous system

4 important questions on Autonomic Nervous System & Divisions of the ANS - ANS vs Somatic nervous system

Name the 3 area in which ANS differ from SNS?

  1. Effectors
    • ANS,  smooth muscle, glands and cardiac muscle
    • SNS, skeletal muscle + joints
  2. efferent pathways
    • SNS, mylelinated fibres straight to skeletal fibers
    • ANS,  preganglionic (first) neuron in spinal cord (myelinated) → ganglionic (second) neuron outside CNS (unmyelinated) → effector organ
  3. neurotranmitter effects
    • SNS, all release Acetylcholine (ACh)
    • ANS, Preganglionic fibers release Ach. Postganglionic fibers release norepinephrine (sympathetic) and Ach (parasympathetic)
    • effect depends on receptor on effector organ

Which region of the spinal cord grey matter do you find SNS nuclei and ANS nuclei?

  • Motor division nuclei is found on the anterior/ventral grey horn
    • anteriolateral for ANS therefore for noth SANS&PANS
    • the very anterior/ventral region on theg grey horn 

Name the chemical that causes direct activation of Na+ channel of skeletal muscles

Acetylcholine
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What is the name of Motor Endings at visceral organs?
what are their structrual characteristics?
what does term "Synapses en passant" mean

Varicosities
bulbous swellings
when a neuron releases chemiicals (acetycholine/norepinephrine) from varicosities, passing through narrow shaft

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