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    The general visceral afferent (GVA) fibers conduct sensory impulses (usually pain or reflex sensations) from the internal organs, glands, and blood vessels...
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  • Special visceral afferent fibers (SVA) are afferent fibers that develop in association with the gastrointestinal tract. They carry the special sense of...
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    Types of afferent fibers include the general somatic, the general visceral, the special somatic and the special visceral afferent fibers. Alternatively...
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  • SSA fibers are the optic nerve (CN II) and the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII). General somatic afferent fiber (GSA) General visceral afferent fiber (GVA)...
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    deeper structures. Afferent nerve General visceral afferent fiber (GVA) Special somatic afferent fiber (SSA) Special visceral afferent fiber (SVA) This article...
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  • Visceral afferent may refer to: General visceral afferent fibers Special visceral afferent This article includes a list of related items that share the...
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    General visceral efferent fibers (GVE), visceral efferents or autonomic efferents are the efferent nerve fibers of the autonomic nervous system (also...
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    by the afferent sensory nerve.[citation needed] There are three types of efferent fibers: general somatic efferent fibers (GSE), general visceral efferent...
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    It contains neuron cell bodies of general visceral afferent fibers and special visceral afferent fibers. It is situated within the jugular fossa just...
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    somatic afferent fibers. Nerve fibers for taste are supplied by the chorda tympani branch of the facial nerve via special visceral afferent fibers. The main...
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    nucleus, which contains the general visceral afferent fibers for taste, as well as the special visceral afferent column. The spinal trigeminal nerve nuclei...
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    the epiglottis). Chemoreceptors and mechanoreceptors of the general visceral afferent pathway (GVA) from the carotid body and carotid sinus via (the carotid...
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    via special visceral afferent fibers Sensation: lingual branch of the mandibular (V3) division of the trigeminal nerve (CN V) via general visceral afferent...
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  • information from special senses is carried in special somatic afferents and special visceral afferents. In contrast, the other sense, touch, is a somatic...
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    Motor neuron (redirect from Motor fibers)
    neuron disease Nerve Sensory nerve Motor nerve Afferent nerve fiber Efferent nerve fiber Sensory neuron "Afferent vs. Efferent: AP® Psych Crash Course Review...
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    pharynx (GVA), and the posterior one-third of the tongue. Visceral afferent (special visceral afferent) – provides taste sensation from the posterior one-third...
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    nucleus and its special visceral afferent (SVA) column; the cochlear and vestibular nuclei, which form the special somatic afferent (SSA) fibers of the vestibulocochlear...
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    muscles of the tongue. Nerve fiber Efferent nerve General visceral efferent fiber (GVE) Special visceral efferent fiber (SVE) This article incorporates...
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    non-contractile function is seen in specialized smooth muscle within the afferent arteriole of the juxtaglomerular apparatus, which secretes renin in response...
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    general rule, in the thorax and abdomen, general visceral afferent (GVA) pain fibers follow sympathetic fibers back to the same spinal cord segments that gave...
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    emotional expression with no visceral afferent feedback was required. This was necessary because the link between visceral changes and the feedback required...
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    transmit information from the body to the CNS are called sensory nerves (afferent). The PNS is divided into two separate subsystems, the somatic and autonomic...
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    belly of the digastric. The trigeminal nerve carries general somatic afferent fibers (GSA), which innervate the skin of the face via ophthalmic (V1), maxillary...
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    also contain blood vessels. The terminal nerve (0), is a thin network of fibers associated with the dura and lamina terminalis running rostral to the olfactory...
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    regions. The peripheral nervous system also contains afferent or efferent nerves, which are bundles of fibers that originate from the brain and spinal cord,...
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    voluntary movements of the skeletal muscles, and can be sub-divided into afferent and efferent neuronal flow. The autonomic nervous system is divided primarily...
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    processes size and shape information. Area S2 processes light touch, pain, visceral sensation, and tactile attention. S1 processes the remaining info (crude...
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    zygomatic are maxillary nerves (from the trigeminal nerve). The special visceral afferents of the vagus nerve carry taste from the epiglottal region of the...
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    divide nerve-fibers, which form the nerves, into two classes, afferent and efferent. Impressions are made on the peripheral afferent fiber-endings; these...
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    its efferent targets in the nucleus accumbens and its local GABAergic afferents. The reward-relevant actions of amphetamine and cocaine are in the dopaminergic...
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