Excerpt from The Autonomic Innervation of Smooth Muscle Preface iiii Introduction Smooth muscle The individual cells The syncytial structure The nature of pericapillary cells Distribution Functional properties Characteristics of nerve-free muscle Relation between smooth muscle and nerves Morphology General remarks Theories of sympathetic nervous end formation Discussion The vascular musculature The dermal and ectodermalzmusculature The urogenital musculature The musculature of the gut The smooth musc1es of vision The respiratory musculature The musculature of the ducts of glands Physiology The work of Cannon and Rosenblueth Dual innervation Chemical mediation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.