Question

List the exact order of flow of bile and pancreatic juice as it flows out of the Liver, Pancreas, and the Gallbladder. List all ducts and any sphincters. Use modern and classical terminology.n

Answer 1

Bile is secreted by hepatocytes. The initial bile secreted by hepatocytes contains large quantity of bile acids, bile pigments, cholesterol and fatty acids.

From hepatocytes bile is released into canaliculi.

From here it passes through small ducts and hepatic ducts and reaches the common hepatic duct.

Most of the bile from liver enters the gall bladder, where it is stored. It is released from gallbladder into the intestine whenever it is required.

Pancreatic juice

Exocrine part of pancreas resembles salivary gland in structure. It is made up of acini or alveoli.

A small duct arise from lumen of each alveolus. Some of these ducts from neighboring alveoli unite to form intralobular duct. All the intralobular ducts unite to form the main duct of pancreas called Wirsung duct.

They joins common bile duct to form ampulla of veter, which is open into duodenum.