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CNS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Afferent | sends signals to |
| Efferent | leaves CNS |
| Motor | mostly voluntary. Smooth and skeletal muscles. |
| Automatic | involuntary body functions: HR, BP, temp,ect. |
| Automatic subdivisions | sympathetic and parasympathetic. |
| sympathetic | fight or flight |
| parasympathetic | inhibition, housekeeping |
| epinephrine found in... | adrenal medulla |
| norepinephrine found in... | secreted from neurons |
| dopamine found in... | brain, kidneys, GI |
| alpha receptors | powerful vasoconstriction |
| beta 1 | increases heart rate |
| beta 2 | vasodilation, bronchodilation |
| dopamine receptors | dilations of renal, mesenteric, coronary, and cerebral. |
| catecholamine | adrenergic neurotransmitters: epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine |