One of the two divisions of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system (the other being the parasympathetic nervous system). The sympathetic preganglionic neurons have their cell bodies in the thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord, and connect to the paravertebral chain of sympathetic ganglia. Innervate heart and blood vessels, sweat glands, viscera, and the adrenal medulla. Most sympathetic neurons, but not all, use noradrenaline as a post-ganglionic neurotransmitter. (BRENDA Tissue and Enzyme Source Ontology, BTO_0001832)
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10 proteins highly expressed in the tissue sympathetic nervous system in proteomics datasets from the TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores dataset.
