While attempting to capture the scorpion, the mouse's heart rate increases, and there is an increase in epinephrine in the mouse's blood. What nervous system division is responsible for the mouse's physiological state? Please use the following information to answer the questions below. The southern grasshopper mouse feeds regularly on the Arizona bark scorpion, the most venomous scorpion in the United States. While attempting to capture the scorpion, the mouse usually gets stung multiple times by the scorpion but does not seem to be affected. While attempting to capture the scorpion, the mouse's heart rate increases, and there is an increase in epinephrine in the mouse's blood. What nervous system division is responsible for the mouse's physiological state?a.sympatheticb.parasympatheticc.sensoryd.enteric

The sympathetic nervous system is part of the autonomic nervous system that is specifically responsible for the “fight or flight” response of the body when exposed to stress or threat. These responses to danger or stress are often involuntary. It is characterized with increased heart rate, constriction of blood vessels, profuse sweating, increased blood pressure etc.

When the sympathetic nervous system is activated in he presence of stress or a threat, epinephrine is released, initiating various reactions in the body against such threat or stimulus.