Cardiac

... the heart is maintained by the parasympathetic fibres in the vagus nerve (parasympathetic) and by the sympathetic nerves. The vagus nerve is the cardiac inhibitor, and the sympathetic nerves are the cardiac excitors. Stimulation of the vagus nerve depresses the rate of impulse formation and atrial ...

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... your reply, the main thing is i cant really find any explanation on why some cells stop dividing, as you said nerve cells (mainly in the brain), cardiac cells and liver cells, why is it they stop dividing? are they just not programmed to do this?

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... is also an autonomic innervation (called reflex). So is it possible that autonomic nervous system controls skeletal muscles, other than smooth- cardiac muscles and glands? It's all clear what you said, just when it gets to written exams, you'd have to choose form A B C D, no chance to explain. ...

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... skeletal muscles; autonomic nervous system ALWAYS receives stimuli from inside of the organism, and its efferents ALWAYS end on smooth muscle, cardiac muscle or glands. Is also part of the definitions above that somatic nervous system has a voluntary control over, autonomic (as its nam indicates) ...

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... Here are a few recent references. Wu B, Li Y, Morcos PA, Doran TJ, Lu P, Lu QL. Octa-guanidine Morpholino Restores Dystrophin Expression in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscles and Ameliorates Pathology in Dystrophic mdx Mice. Mol Ther. 2009 Mar 10. [Epub ahead of print] Bauman J, Jearawiriyapaisarn ...

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