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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "Internal World (The Self)"
Split Justification: The Internal World involves both mental processes (**Cognitive Sphere**) and physical experiences (**Somatic Sphere**). (Ref: Mind-Body Distinction)
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From: "Somatic Sphere"
Split Justification: The Somatic Sphere encompasses all physical aspects of the self. These can be fundamentally divided based on whether they are directly accessible to conscious awareness and subjective experience (e.g., pain, touch, proprioception) or whether they operate autonomously and beneath the threshold of conscious perception (e.g., heart rate, digestion, cellular metabolism). Every bodily sensation, state, or process falls into one of these two categories, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Autonomic & Unconscious Somatic Processes"
Split Justification: ** All unconscious somatic processes are fundamentally regulated through either the dedicated neural pathways of the autonomic nervous system or through the intrinsic, self-regulating mechanisms of other physiological systems (e.g., endocrine, immune, cellular, local tissue systems). These two categories comprehensively cover all autonomous and unconscious bodily functions and are mutually exclusive in their primary regulatory mechanism.
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From: "Autonomic Neural Regulation"
Split Justification: Autonomic neural regulation is fundamentally divided into the sympathetic nervous system, which primarily prepares the body for action and stress responses, and the parasympathetic nervous system, which primarily facilitates rest, digestion, and energy conservation. These two branches constitute the entirety of the autonomic nervous system, operating with largely opposing effects on target organs, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive for covering all aspects of autonomic neural regulation.
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From: "Sympathetic Neural Regulation"
Split Justification: Sympathetic neural regulation exerts its effects through two distinct and exhaustive primary output mechanisms: either by postganglionic neurons directly releasing neurotransmitters at target cells, or by preganglionic neurons stimulating the adrenal medulla to secrete catecholamine hormones into the bloodstream for systemic action. These two mechanisms are mutually exclusive in their method of signal delivery and collectively account for all sympathetic regulatory processes.
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From: "Direct Sympathetic Neurotransmission"
Split Justification: All direct sympathetic neurotransmission by postganglionic neurons fundamentally involves the release of one of two primary neurotransmitters: norepinephrine (which mediates the vast majority of sympathetic effects) or acetylcholine (which is released by sympathetic fibers innervating sweat glands and a few other specific targets). These two categories are mutually exclusive, as a given neuron releases one or the other, and comprehensively exhaustive, covering all known instances of direct sympathetic neurotransmission.
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From: "Cholinergic Direct Sympathetic Neurotransmission"
Split Justification: All direct cholinergic sympathetic neurotransmission by postganglionic neurons primarily targets one of two distinct tissue types: exocrine glands (predominantly sweat glands, mediating thermoregulation) or specific smooth muscle tissues (such as vascular smooth muscle in skeletal muscle, mediating vasodilation). These two categories comprehensively cover the known primary target tissues for this specific neurotransmission pathway and are mutually exclusive in their anatomical and physiological effects.
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From: "Cholinergic Direct Sympathetic Neurotransmission to Vascular Smooth Muscle"
Split Justification: ** All instances of cholinergic direct sympathetic neurotransmission targeting vascular smooth muscle exert their ultimate effect on smooth muscle tone through one of two fundamentally distinct pathways: either the neurotransmitter acts on receptors located on adjacent endothelial cells, which then release secondary mediators that diffuse to and act upon the smooth muscle cells (endothelium-dependent), or the neurotransmitter acts directly on receptors located on the vascular smooth muscle cells themselves (endothelium-independent). These two mechanisms are mutually exclusive in their primary site of receptor activation leading to the observed physiological effect and comprehensively exhaust all possible routes by which this specific neurotransmission can modulate vascular smooth muscle.
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From: "Endothelium-Dependent Cholinergic Direct Sympathetic Neurotransmission to Vascular Smooth Muscle"
Split Justification: All endothelium-dependent cholinergic direct sympathetic neurotransmission to vascular smooth muscle fundamentally relies on endothelial cells releasing secondary mediators that diffuse to and act upon the smooth muscle. These mediators are definitively categorized based on whether their primary vasodilatory action is attributed to Nitric Oxide (NO) or to other distinct non-Nitric Oxide factors (such as Endothelium-Derived Hyperpolarizing Factors or prostacyclin). These two categories are mutually exclusive in their biochemical identity and primary mechanism of action, and comprehensively exhaust all known classes of endothelial-derived mediators responsible for modulating vascular smooth muscle tone in this specific context.
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From: "Non-Nitric Oxide-Mediated Endothelium-Dependent Cholinergic Direct Sympathetic Neurotransmission to Vascular Smooth Muscle"
Split Justification: All instances of Non-Nitric Oxide-mediated endothelium-dependent cholinergic direct sympathetic neurotransmission to vascular smooth muscle fundamentally involve endothelial cells releasing either Endothelium-Derived Hyperpolarizing Factors (EDHFs), which induce hyperpolarization and relaxation, or Prostacyclin (PGI2), which acts through specific prostanoid receptors to cause relaxation. These two categories represent distinct biochemical classes of mediators with different cellular mechanisms of action, and together they comprehensively cover the known primary non-Nitric Oxide endothelium-derived factors responsible for modulating vascular smooth muscle tone in this specific context, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Prostacyclin-Mediated Endothelium-Dependent Cholinergic Direct Sympathetic Neurotransmission to Vascular Smooth Muscle"
Split Justification: Prostacyclin (PGI2) mediates its effects on vascular smooth muscle by first binding to specific Gs-protein coupled IP receptors, which then activate adenylyl cyclase to produce cyclic AMP (cAMP). This initial phase of receptor activation and second messenger generation is fundamentally distinct from the subsequent phase, where the increased intracellular cAMP activates protein kinase A (PKA) and triggers downstream phosphorylation events that culminate in vascular smooth muscle relaxation. These two categories are mutually exclusive, representing sequential stages in the signaling pathway, and are comprehensively exhaustive for covering all aspects of Prostacyclin-mediated vascular smooth muscle relaxation.
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Topic: "Prostacyclin Binding to IP Receptors and Gs-Adenylyl Cyclase Activation in Vascular Smooth Muscle" (W5829)