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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 Cholinergic Regulation of Internal Anal Sphincter Relaxation"
Split Justification: Smooth muscle relaxation, including that of the internal anal sphincter, is fundamentally achieved through two distinct and comprehensive cellular mechanisms: either by reducing the concentration of free intracellular calcium ions, which are essential for initiating contraction, or by decreasing the responsiveness (sensitivity) of the contractile proteins (myofilaments) to calcium, allowing relaxation even in the presence of calcium. Cholinergic regulation mediating relaxation must operate through one or both of these primary pathways, making them mutually exclusive in their core mechanism and comprehensively exhaustive for all forms of smooth muscle relaxation.
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From: "Sacral Parasympathetic Cholinergic Regulation of IAS Relaxation via Decreased Myofilament Calcium Sensitivity"
Split Justification: ** Myofilament calcium sensitivity in smooth muscle is determined by the balance between the phosphorylation of myosin light chain (MLC) by Myosin Light Chain Kinase (MLCK) and its dephosphorylation by Myosin Light Chain Phosphatase (MLCP). A decrease in myofilament calcium sensitivity, for a given intracellular calcium concentration, fundamentally results from either a reduction in the enzymatic activity of MLCK or an increase in the enzymatic activity of MLCP. These two mechanisms are mutually exclusive in their primary enzymatic target and comprehensively cover all direct enzymatic means by which cholinergic regulation can decrease myofilament calcium sensitivity to promote internal anal sphincter relaxation.
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Topic: "Sacral Parasympathetic Cholinergic Regulation of IAS Relaxation via Increased MLCP Activity" (W7477)