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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: "Parasympathetic Neural Regulation"
Split Justification: The parasympathetic nervous system is anatomically and functionally defined by its neural origins, which are exclusively from either specific cranial nerves (III, VII, IX, X) or sacral spinal nerves (S2-S4). These two distinct outflow pathways comprehensively cover all sources of parasympathetic neural regulation, and any given parasympathetic pathway originates from one or the other, ensuring mutual exclusivity.
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From: "Sacral Parasympathetic Outflow"
Split Justification: The sacral parasympathetic outflow primarily innervates organs within the pelvic cavity. These target organs and their functions can be fundamentally and exhaustively divided into those primarily responsible for the elimination of bodily waste (defecation and micturition via the distal colon, rectum, and bladder) and those primarily involved in reproduction and sexual function (genitalia and associated structures). These two categories represent distinct physiological domains regulated by the sacral parasympathetic system and are mutually exclusive in their primary functional roles.
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From: "Sacral Parasympathetic Regulation of Pelvic Visceral Elimination"
Split Justification: The sacral parasympathetic outflow primarily regulates two distinct elimination processes within the pelvic viscera: defecation (the controlled expulsion of feces from the distal colon and rectum) and micturition (the controlled expulsion of urine from the bladder). These two physiological processes involve different organ systems and waste products, making them mutually exclusive. Together, they comprehensively cover all major aspects of pelvic visceral elimination regulated by the sacral parasympathetic nervous system.
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From: "Sacral Parasympathetic Regulation of Defecation"
Split Justification: ** The sacral parasympathetic nervous system regulates defecation through two primary and distinct efferent actions on the pelvic viscera. It stimulates the smooth muscle of the rectum to contract, which generates the propulsive force necessary for fecal expulsion. Concurrently, it inhibits the tonic contraction of the internal anal sphincter, thereby facilitating the opening of the anal canal and reducing resistance to outflow. These two physiological mechanisms act on different anatomical structures (rectal wall vs. internal anal sphincter) with distinct effects (contraction vs. relaxation) but are both essential and comprehensive components of parasympathetic-mediated defecation.
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From: "Sacral Parasympathetic Regulation of Internal Anal Sphincter Relaxation"
Split Justification: The sacral parasympathetic nervous system regulates internal anal sphincter relaxation through distinct neurochemical pathways. While its primary neurotransmitter is acetylcholine (cholinergic), it also extensively utilizes non-cholinergic, non-adrenergic (NANC) neurotransmitters, such as nitric oxide and vasoactive intestinal peptide, to directly mediate relaxation in this specific smooth muscle. These two categories represent mutually exclusive sets of primary effector molecules released by postganglionic neurons, which together comprehensively account for all known direct neurochemical mechanisms by which sacral parasympathetic innervation regulates the relaxation of the internal anal sphincter.
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From: "Sacral Parasympathetic Non-Cholinergic Regulation of Internal Anal Sphincter Relaxation"
Split Justification: ** The sacral parasympathetic non-cholinergic regulation of internal anal sphincter relaxation is predominantly mediated by two distinct primary neurotransmitter systems: nitric oxide (NO) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). Nitric oxide, a diffusible gas, acts through a cGMP-dependent pathway, while vasoactive intestinal peptide, a neuropeptide, acts via a cAMP-dependent pathway. These two neurochemical mechanisms are mutually exclusive in their primary effector molecules and intracellular signaling cascades. Together, NO and VIP comprehensively account for the major direct non-cholinergic regulation of internal anal sphincter relaxation by the sacral parasympathetic nervous system.
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From: "Sacral Parasympathetic Nitric Oxide-Mediated Internal Anal Sphincter Relaxation"
Split Justification: The overall process of nitric oxide-mediated relaxation involves two fundamental and sequential phases: the initial synthesis of nitric oxide by neuronal nitric oxide synthase within the sacral parasympathetic nerve terminals and its subsequent release, and the subsequent activation of its soluble guanylyl cyclase receptor within the internal anal sphincter smooth muscle cells, leading to increased cyclic GMP (cGMP) and downstream relaxation. These two phases are causally distinct, mutually exclusive in their primary location (presynaptic neuron vs. postsynaptic smooth muscle cell) and cellular machinery, and together comprehensively account for the full mechanism of NO-mediated internal anal sphincter relaxation.
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Topic: "Sacral Parasympathetic Nitric Oxide-Activated cGMP Signaling in Internal Anal Sphincter Smooth Muscle" (W6965)