Talk:Parasympathetic nervous system

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Can someone please consider addding "Function" as a section to this? --Destrogal 01:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Is this article still a stub??? Should I expand on it more?? --LowLifer 05:17, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

It was helpful to me to see this article listed under parasympathetic. Would people doing research know to look for it under a different title?

Merging this article would be false. An antiparasympathetic agent is the OPPOSITE of a parasympathetic agent.

Would it really be that false? I mean, just redirect pages, and make it perfectly clear that an antiparasympathetic agent ISN'T a parasympathetic one.

I think its good to keep the two articles separate. It kind of confuses people. --LowLifer 13:17, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, keep them seperate. antiparasympathetics are a major class of drugs and, though they deserve mention within the parasymp article, this stub has the potential to become a mature article. --anon

I was hoping for some mention of occasions when the balance is disrupted, and unintended effects occur in the gastrointestinal tract. I believe this is sometimes referred to as parasympathetic overreaction.

[edit] Grammatical and typographical error corrections

Under the first section: Relationship to the sympathetic nervous system, we have:

Sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions typically function against one another. But we cant say it as antagonistic, better to term it as complementary in nature. Think of the sympathetic division as the accelerator and the parasympathetic division as the brake.

I would suggest the following corrections to grammar and wording to make the points clearer.

Sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions typically function in opposition to each other. But this opposition is better termed complimentary in nature rather than antagonistic. For an analogy, one may think of the sympathetic division as the accelerator and the parasympathetic division as the brake.

I have already taken the liberty of inserting the apostrophe missing in "cant" of the original text and replaced the comma after "antagonistic" with a semicolon which reflects better punctuation. --Blue Fire--

Blue Fire 03:58, 8 November 2006 (UTC) I have made the changes above as of Nov. 11, 2006

Under the M2 part of the receptors section the text reads: "Note, they have no minimal on the contractile forces of the ventricular muscle..." I suggest "no minimal" be replaced with "minimal effect."