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.
| Descriptor ID |
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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Below are the most recent publications written about "Parasympathetic Nervous System" by people in Profiles.
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Heart Rate Recovery as a Preoperative Test of Perioperative Complication Risk. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Nov; 100(5):1954-62.
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Socioeconomic status and health: is parasympathetic nervous system activity an intervening mechanism? Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Apr; 34(2):309-15.