A Surgeon Is Repairing Damage to an Individual's Abdominal Area

question 23

Multiple Choice

A surgeon is repairing damage to an individual's abdominal area, and accidentally connects a nerve that originally controlled the smooth muscle of the GI tract to the skeletal muscle of the abdominal wall. Hypothesize what might happen in this instance.

• A) The individual will no longer have voluntary control of the smooth muscle in his GI tract.
• B) The nerve will change divisions and contain only somatic neurons.
• C) Nothing, because the tissue of the GI tract responds only to the enteric nervous system, and the autonomic innervation was not vital.
• D) This area of the GI tract will no longer be able to exchange information with the CNS through this nerve.

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