Parasympathetic Nervous System
"Parasympathetic Nervous System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The craniosacral division of the autonomic nervous system. The cell bodies of the parasympathetic preganglionic fibers are in brain stem nuclei and in the sacral spinal cord. They synapse in cranial autonomic ganglia or in terminal ganglia near target organs. The parasympathetic nervous system generally acts to conserve resources and restore homeostasis, often with effects reciprocal to the sympathetic nervous system.
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D010275
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MeSH Number(s) |
A08.800.050.600
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Concept/Terms |
Parasympathetic Nervous System- Parasympathetic Nervous System
- Nervous System, Parasympathetic
- Nervous Systems, Parasympathetic
- Parasympathetic Nervous Systems
- System, Parasympathetic Nervous
- Systems, Parasympathetic Nervous
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Gustafson KM, Allen JJ, Yeh HW, May LE. Characterization of the fetal diaphragmatic magnetomyogram and the effect of breathing movements on cardiac metrics of rate and variability. Early Hum Dev. 2011 Jul; 87(7):467-75.
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Gu H, Jiang SA, Campusano JM, Iniguez J, Su H, Hoang AA, Lavian M, Sun X, O'Dowd DK. Cav2-type calcium channels encoded by cac regulate AP-independent neurotransmitter release at cholinergic synapses in adult Drosophila brain. J Neurophysiol. 2009 Jan; 101(1):42-53.
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