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Autonomic Nervous System

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The contraction (or relaxation) of muscles and the secretion of glands are overt indications of the functional activity of the nervous system. These actions are mediated through the somatic motor and the autonomic (visceral) nervous systems. The somatic motor system (SMS) innervates voluntary (skeletal, striated) muscles, whereas the autonomic nervous system (ANS) influences the activities of involuntary (smooth) muscles, cardiac (heart) muscle, and glands. The autonomic nervous system is often called the general visceral efferent system or vegetative motor system because the effectors are associated with the visceral systems over which only minimal, if any, direct conscious control can be exerted.

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  1. Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, The Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

    Norman L. Strominger

  2. Highview Terrace 87, Hawthorne, NJ, USA

    Robert J. Demarest

  3. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

    Lois B. Laemle

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Strominger, N.L., Demarest, R.J., Laemle, L.B. (2012). Autonomic Nervous System. In: Noback's Human Nervous System, Seventh Edition. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-779-8_20

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