Multiple Choice
The ANS stimulates cardiac muscle as well as smooth muscle and glands. Which of the following nerves carries autonomic fibers that increase the rate of cardiac muscle contraction?
A) sympathetic nerves from the middle and inferior cervical ganglion
B) vagus nerves
C) sympathetic nerves from the lower half of the thoracolumbar spinal cord
D) phrenic nerves
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