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Afferent

Afferent

(Science: anatomy) moving or carrying inward or toward a central part. Refers to vessels, nerves, etc. For example: blood vessels carrying blood toward the heart, or nerves conducting signals to the brain.

Compare: efferent.


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Dilation or Constriction

It triggers the constriction. For example when you're wounded and you start losing blood, renal afferent artery constricts and you stop losing more water from your body.

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by miloshic
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:29 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
Replies: 3
Views: 728

Re: Vagus Nerve

... the nerve exits the cranial cavity via the jugular foramen. Within the foramen is the superior ganglion, containing cell bodies of general somatic afferent fibres, and just external to the... * neurological examination ( in nervous system disease: Cranial nerves ) To examine glossopharyngeal and ...

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by sanjidcapa
Tue May 05, 2009 9:15 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Vagus Nerve
Replies: 16
Views: 39270

Questions about Neurons

That wouldn't happen, because they would need to be intermediate neurons, and sensory neurons are only afferent.

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by plasmodesmata11
Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:01 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Questions about Neurons
Replies: 1
Views: 331

Dilation or Constriction

Does sympathetic nerve trigger the dilation or constriction of renal afferent artery? thx^^

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by whizzbee
Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:40 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
Replies: 3
Views: 728

Oxygen levels in glomeruli

... within the kidneys, certain substances are filtered out of the blood. This is why the concentrations of different substances differ between the afferent arteriole and the efferent arteriole. Now, in our textbook it says that although the glomeruli do not decrease the amount of oxygen in the ...

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by Ichneumon
Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:11 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Oxygen levels in glomeruli
Replies: 0
Views: 306
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