Question

A surgeon is repairing damage to an individuals 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, as the autonomic innervation was no vital

d) this area of the GI tract will no longer be able to be able to exchange information with the CNS through this nerve

Answer 1

c)nothing, because the tissue of the GI tract responds only to the enteric nervous system, as the autonomic innervation was no vital.

Myentric plexus controls contraction of smooth muscles in the digestive system, it is important for GI motility., these nerve plexuses function independently of the central nervous system, the myentric plexus function as part of enteric nervous system.