Point 6 Intro Pathway Deficits Note Problems Contents Anatomy

Hopefully, you will remember from Gross Anatomy some of the important details regarding the organization of the autonomic nervous system within the spinal cord. What I want to emphasize at this time is the sympathetic outflow. There are PREGANGLIONIC SYMPATHETIC cells present in the spinal cord at spinal levels T1-L2. This clump of cells comprises the LATERAL CELL COLUMN (also called the intermediolateral cell column by some investigators). Axons of these cells pass ventrally and comprise part of the ventral root (from T1-L2). These preganglionic sympathetics can then do a number of things. THINK!!!