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electrical stimulation of the sympathetic neurons, and other classes of drugs likewise elicited responses that were contained to the parasympathetic neurons. The sympathetic nervous system's responsiveness to adrenaline, in particular, lead to the system's association with the 'fight or flight' response of humans, although this is an oversimplification of the roles played by the SNS. These two distinct classifications were further supported by differences in the location of the ganglionic synapses. Since the time of
Langley's unified proposal in the 1920s, these divisions have remained relatively constant; the parasympathetic nervous system is known to regulate unconscious activities of the body and maintain homeostasis, the sympathetic nervous system controls responses to external stimuli, but both are involuntary functions. Langley also described an enteric nervous system although it has received minimal attention, and most modern textbooks tend to only mention the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways in the context of the autonomic nervous system.
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Espinosa-Medina. Jänig et al. argue that many of the measured gene markers from
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150:. These transcription factors were only identified within other portions of the spinal cord, but they were not co-expressed in the developing cranium. This genomic similarity of the lumbrasacral region to the rest of the spinal cord lead to the conclusion that the sacral region of the spinal cord may actually be part of the sympathetic nervous system. The effect of this revision produces a simple bisection of the autonomic nervous system wherein the cranium is solely parasympathetic, and the spinal cord is solely sympathetic.
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regions. The latter two, tectal and bulbo-sacral, were grouped together to form the parasympathetic system because they tended to respond in a like manner to various drugs. Langley also mentions an enteric nervous system in his writing, but this third grouping has largely fallen out of discussion in modern practice.
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reactions in another part of the body, as well as the "ganglionic nerves and ganglionic nervous system" for the ganglionic conversion of voluntary to involuntary movements (which supposedly made these peripheral nerves 'ganglionic nerves'), among other classifications. Langley stated that his choice
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region of the spine (roughly vertebrae T1-L3) whereas the parasympathetic system covers peripheral nerve synapses in the vertebrae regions of T12-S4 in addition to a number of cranial nerves. As can be noticed from this description, there is a slight overlap of these divisions in the lowest region
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the spinal cord and cranium made the 'ganglionic' connections of the peripheral nerves a pointless, if not misleading, term. Instead, he noted that the sympathetic neurons that innervated the entire body tended to have opposing functions to the other autonomic neurons of the tectal and bulbo-sacral
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The nerve classifications of the autonomic nervous system created by the traditional methodologies have remained mostly unchanged over the last 100 years. However, modern perspectives have placed more of an emphasis on the developmental and molecular mechanisms of these systems. As such, more
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Other researchers in the field have challenged this assertion. A publication out of the lab of German researcher
Wilfrid Jänig claims that this reclassification would be a 'mistake.' Among the arguments made by Jänig et al. is a disagreement with the developmental research approach taken by
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