The phrase "autonomic pathways" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, neuroscience, or systems theory, referring to pathways that operate automatically or without conscious control.
Example: "The autonomic pathways in the nervous system regulate involuntary functions such as heart rate and digestion."
Alternatives: "automatic pathways" or "involuntary pathways".
Neuropathy affects sensory, motor and autonomic pathways.
Kamath MV, et al. Assessment of the visceral afferent and autonomic pathways in response to esophageal stimulation in control subjects and in patients with diabetes.
Goehler, L. E. et al. Activation in vagal afferents and central autonomic pathways: early responses to intestinal infection with Campylobacter jejuni.
The hypothalamus is of the utmost importance in mammals, for it integrates stimuli from both internal and external environments, channeling signals to higher centres or into autonomic pathways.
In some animals, autonomic pathways were disrupted pharmacologically or surgically.
The obvious tumor compression of surrounding tissue was not detected, but the possible local impact on autonomic pathways could not be excluded.
The autonomic pathway involves a chain of two fibres, one arising in the brain or spinal cord and ending in a sympathetic ganglion (the preganglionic fibre), the second (the postganglionic fibre) arising in the ganglion and passing to the organ innervated.
Oxygen was not found to exert any direct effect on trigeminal afferents, but instead acts specifically on the parasympathetic/facial nerve projections to the cranial vasculature so as to inhibit both evoked trigeminovascular activation and activation of the autonomic pathway during CH attacks.
The outflow pathway for the cranial autonomic pathway begins in the superior salivatory nucleus in the pons, which can be excited by trigeminal afferents (21) and is certainly connected to a trigeminal input (22).
In naturally occurring cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the BSE prion seems to exclusively utilize autonomic neural pathways for neuro-invasion, a defining characteristic of BSE [38], [39], [45], [46].
The pathophysiology of traumatic-hemorrhagic injury involves decreased blood volume (i.e., hypovolemia) and hypoperfusion, which results in signaling to central cardiovascular centers aimed at restoring hemodynamic stability through activation of descending autonomic neuroendocrine pathways (Molina 2005).
